Poverty Alleviation Through Tourism

Author : World Tourism Organization
Publisher : WTO
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000107258984

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Poverty Alleviation Through Tourism by World Tourism Organization Pdf

This publication contains details of private or public tourism projects that have been presented by WTO Member States as examples of good, sustainable practices for poverty reduction through tourism. They are drawn from 26 case studies from 20 countries including three LDCs (least developed countries) of Ethiopia, Mali and Mozambique, and include examples of projects relating to agro-tourism, tourism micro-entrepreneur networks, village tourism, community-based hotels, parks or protected areas, guide training and handicraft development.

Author : ROBERTICO. CROES,Manuel Rivera
Publisher : Apple Academic Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 1774635550

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Poverty Alleviation Through Tourism Development by ROBERTICO. CROES,Manuel Rivera Pdf

The book offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to the topic of tourism development and its contribution to the fight against poverty. Tourism development is credited to be a powerful source of regional development and improvement in developing countries, and the focus of the book is on the world's poorest areas and how tourism connects to the poor and unlocks opportunities to escape the poverty trap. This book takes a comprehensive and unique approach by combining a decade of research on the effects of tourism development on poverty reduction in Latin America. The book explores poverty and its impact on development at the macro and micro levels. Then, it goes on to focus on tourism development and its effects on growth, inequality, and poverty reduction and how these dynamic relationships affect the most vulnerable groups of society. The research also documents on how the poor perceive tourism development on their lives and if they see it as an important vehicle to help them escape from poverty. Lastly, the authors map the conditions under which tourism can reach the poor and how tourism can offer opportunities for impoverished areas and their residents. Combining tourism dynamics, development economics, poverty reduction, business practices, and a sustainable perspective, the book takes a broad look at this important issue. The book will be informative and valuable to a higher educational audience, including academia and researchers, as well as practitioners, policymakers, and international organizations, and graduate students.

Author : Robertico Croes,Manuel Rivera
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498732710

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Poverty Alleviation through Tourism Development by Robertico Croes,Manuel Rivera Pdf

The book offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to the topic of tourism development and its contribution to the fight against poverty. Tourism development is credited to be a powerful source of regional development and improvement in developing countries, and the focus of the book is on the world’s poorest areas and how tourism connects to the poor and unlocks opportunities to escape the poverty trap. This book takes a comprehensive and unique approach by combining a decade of research on the effects of tourism development on poverty reduction in Latin America. The book explores poverty and its impact on development at the macro and micro levels. Then, it goes on to focus on tourism development and its effects on growth, inequality, and poverty reduction and how these dynamic relationships affect the most vulnerable groups of society. The research also documents on how the poor perceive tourism development on their lives and if they see it as an important vehicle to help them escape from poverty. Lastly, the authors map the conditions under which tourism can reach the poor and how tourism can offer opportunities for impoverished areas and their residents. Combining tourism dynamics, development economics, poverty reduction, business practices, and a sustainable perspective, the book takes a broad look at this important issue. The book will be informative and valuable to a higher educational audience, including academia and researchers, as well as practitioners, policymakers, and international organizations, and graduate students.

Author : Jonathan Mitchell,Caroline Ashley
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844078882

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Tourism and Poverty Reduction by Jonathan Mitchell,Caroline Ashley Pdf

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anna Spenceley,Dorothea Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317387015

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Tourism and Poverty Reduction by Anna Spenceley,Dorothea Meyer Pdf

Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of publications that have analysed and critiqued the potential of tourism to be a mechanism for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries (LEDCs). This book showcases work by established and emerging researchers that provides new thinking and tests previously made assumptions, providing an essential guide for students, practitioners and academics. This book advances our understanding of the changes and ways forward in the field of sustainable tourism development. Five main themes are illustrated throughout the book: (1) measuring impacts of tourism on poverty; (2) the need to evaluate whether interventions that aim to reduce poverty are effective; (3) how unbalanced power relations and weak governance can undermine efforts; (4) the importance of the private sector’s use of pro-poor business practices; and (5) the value of using multidisciplinary and multi-method research approaches. Furthermore, the book shows that academic research findings can be used practically in destinations, and how practitioners can benefit from sharing their experiences with academic scholars. This book was based on a special issue and various articles from the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Author : Andrew Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135175641

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Tourism, Poverty and Development by Andrew Holden Pdf

Poverty alleviation is high on the global policy agenda, its importance being emphasised by its place as the first of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. As a potentially significant source of economic growth in developing countries, tourism may also play a major role in poverty reduction and alleviation under the right circumstances. The incorporation of tourism into development policy and Poverty Reduction Strategies has special poignancy for those Least Developed Countries where natural resources exist to support a tourism industry and there are limited development alternatives. This book offers a holistic, explicit and detailed introduction to the relationship of poverty and tourism within the context of developing countries. The book is divided into distinct sections, progressing from an evaluation of the key concepts of poverty, tourism and development; to the causal factors of poverty; to the mechanisms of how tourism is being implemented in policy and practice to reduce poverty and finally to an analysis of the relationship between tourism to poverty alleviation in the future. The adopted analytical approach of the key themes is multi-disciplinary, incorporating tourism studies, human geography, political economy, economics, development and environmental studies. It integrates examples and original case studies from varying geographical developing regions including Africa, South Asian and East Asia and the Pacific, to lend practical insights into tourism’s role in poverty alleviation. The text will be of particular interest to higher education students from tourism studies, geography, political economy, environmental and development studies, and sociology backgrounds. It will also be of relevance to government and policy makers, alongside those who have a more general interest in poverty alleviation.

Author : Richard Denman,World Tourism Organization
Publisher : WTO
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000107477006

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Tourism and Poverty Alleviation by Richard Denman,World Tourism Organization Pdf

One of the cornerstones of sustainable tourism - ecological, social and economic - to which WTO is committed, is the well being of poor communities and their environment. The World Tourism Organization is convinced that tourism can be harnessed to address the problems of poverty more directly. This reviews current experience of tourism and poverty and makes recommendations for action by government, the industry, development agencies and local communities.

Author : Colin Michael Hall
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845410759

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Pro-poor Tourism by Colin Michael Hall Pdf

Pro-poor tourism is currently receiving enormous attention from the World Tourism Organization, government, industry, and NGOs. Through a series of cases and reviews this book provides one of the first assessments of the effectiveness of pro-poor tourism as a development strategy and tackles the issue of who benefits from tourisms potential role in poverty reduction.

Author : Regina Scheyvens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136830426

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Tourism and Poverty by Regina Scheyvens Pdf

1. Introduction -- 2. Poverty and tourism unpacked -- 3. Tourism entrenches poverty -- 4. Poverty attracts tourists -- 5. Tourism reduces poverty-- tourism industry approaches -- 6. Tourism reduces poverty--government approaches -- 7. Tourism reduces poverty-- development agency approaches -- 8. Conclusion.

Author : Regina Scheyvens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136830419

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Tourism and Poverty by Regina Scheyvens Pdf

Tourism and Poverty addresses a critical question facing many academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies around the world: can tourism work as a tool to overcome poverty? This book is the first to present a focused description and critique of the issues surrounding poverty and tourism. Relying on a wealth of primary data on tourism, Regina Scheyvens supports her findings with novel case studies such as innovative partnerships between resorts and fledgling indigenous businesses in Fiji, Oxfam’s work to connect the agriculture and tourism sectors in the Caribbean, and difficulties in alleviating poverty in the Maldives despite the growth of luxury tourism. This book will challenge the way academics and tourism professionals understand the current and potential role of tourism in alleviating poverty.

Author : Peter Keller,Thomas Bieger
Publisher : International Progress Organization
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 3503130020

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Tourism Development After the Crises by Peter Keller,Thomas Bieger Pdf

HauptbeschreibungGlobal imbalances and crises which occurred more frequently and at shorter intervals made international tourism demand more volatile. This book, edited by Peter Keller and Thomas Bieger, provides a unique analysis of the recent financial crisis on world tourism and particularly the development models which contribute to reduce poverty. The volume is based on the knowledge of a network of more than 300 researches and includes experiences from Europe, Africa and Asia. It focuses on the latest economic crises as a framework for analyses and as a real life case study.

Author : World Tourism Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Tourism
ISBN : UCBK:C110424884

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Manual on Tourism and Poverty Alleviation by World Tourism Organization Pdf

Author : United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9211204453

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The Contribution of Tourism to Poverty Alleviation by United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

Sustainable tourism can act as a catalyst for socio-economic development and poverty reduction, through job creation and productive employment, preservation of the natural environment and cultural traditions, and investment of tax revenues derived from tourism activities in education, health and infrastructure development. This publication contains papers presented at a seminar, held in Kathmandu in August 2003, which discuss experiences from selected Asian countries on the economic impact of tourism; and specific case studies of tourism development programmes, including from India, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam.

Author : World Tourism Organization,PlaNet Finance
Publisher : WTO
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822029608346

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Tourism, Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation by World Tourism Organization,PlaNet Finance Pdf

This publication, produced by the World Tourism Organization and PlaNet Finance, examines the impact of tourism in relation to poverty reduction strategies in developing countries through the use of microfinance options in tourism projects. The report considers seven different approaches for promoting benefits for the poor from tourism development (including employment options, provision of services and products and tourism taxation); the role of small and medium sized businesses; and financing tourism through microcredit schemes, using the example of rural tourism development in Morocco.

Author : Brandão, Filipa,Breda, Zélia,Costa, Rui,Costa, Carlos
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799856931

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Handbook of Research on the Role of Tourism in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals by Brandão, Filipa,Breda, Zélia,Costa, Rui,Costa, Carlos Pdf

Tourism, one of the world’s leading industries, has propelled countries into recovery from economic recession. As a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral, holistic, and systemic industry, tourism also uniquely placed to address the concerns of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the relationships between tourism, sustainability, and sustainable development are the subjects of deep study, the direct positive effects of tourism on SDGs remain underdiscussed. The Handbook of Research on the Role of Tourism in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals is a collection of innovative research that explores sustainable practices within the tourism industry. While highlighting a broad range of topics including economic growth, education, and production patterns, this book is ideally designed for engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, executives, advocates, researchers, academicians, and students.