Tourism Poverty And Development

Author : Andrew Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135175658

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This book provides a holistic, explicit and detailed introduction to the relationship of poverty and tourism development within the context of developing countries. The book is divided into three distinct sections, progressing from an evaluation of the key concepts, the causal factors of poverty and how tourism is being implemented in policy and practice to reduce poverty, to the relationship of tourism and poverty in the future. The theoretical framework inherent to the text is inter-disciplinary, incorporating tourism, geography, politics, economics, environmental studies, development studies, sociology and history literature to provide the reader with a range of perspectives from which to explore the key issues of the tourism and poverty relationship. It integrates examples and original case studies from varying geographical developing regions including Latin American, Asia and Africa to show practical insights into tourism’s role in poverty alleviation. To encourage reflection on the main themes addressed and critical thinking, ‘Think points’, discussion questions and links to further reading are included in each chapter.

Author : Andrew Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135175641

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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 : Jonathan Mitchell,Caroline Ashley
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Regina Scheyvens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Anna Spenceley,Dorothea Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Robertico Croes,Manuel Rivera
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Richard Denman,World Tourism Organization
Publisher : WTO
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : 43,7 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 : Michal Apollo,Pahlaj Moolio
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845418496

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Poverty and Development by Michal Apollo,Pahlaj Moolio Pdf

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conceptual chapters, including those by local researchers, on a range of topics highlighting the relationship between poverty and sustainability. It cover themes such as: changes in the environment that pose an existential risk to humans; new concepts in tourism development that consider it as one of the key contributors in the prosperity and well-being of all stakeholders; natural, social and economic aspects of human behaviour and environmental sustainability; the impact of global warming on human well-being; immigration and integration policies and analyses of public discourse on migrants; and overconsumption and its impact on sustainable development. It will be a helpful resource for students and researchers of environmental management, tourism, global justice and sustainable development.

Author : Michal Apollo,Pahlaj Moolio
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845418496

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Poverty and Development by Michal Apollo,Pahlaj Moolio Pdf

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conceptual chapters, including those by local researchers, on a range of topics highlighting the relationship between poverty and sustainability. It cover themes such as: changes in the environment that pose an existential risk to humans; new concepts in tourism development that consider it as one of the key contributors in the prosperity and well-being of all stakeholders; natural, social and economic aspects of human behaviour and environmental sustainability; the impact of global warming on human well-being; immigration and integration policies and analyses of public discourse on migrants; and overconsumption and its impact on sustainable development. It will be a helpful resource for students and researchers of environmental management, tourism, global justice and sustainable development.

Author : Fabian Frenzel,Ko Koens,Malte Steinbrink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136487958

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Slum Tourism by Fabian Frenzel,Ko Koens,Malte Steinbrink Pdf

Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its development dynamics and its rapidly spreading popularity across the globe. Township tourism and favela tourism have currently reached mass tourism characteristics in South Africa and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In other countries of the Global South, slum tourism now also occurs and providers see huge growth potential. While the morally controversial practice of slum tourism has raised much attention and opinionated debates in the media for several years, academic research has only recently started addressing it as a global phenomenon. This edition provides the first systematic overview of the field and the diverse issues connected to slum tourism. This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth. Its chapters indicate that ‘global slumming’ is not merely a controversial and challenging topic in itself, but also offers an apt lens through which to discuss core concepts in critical tourism studies in a global perspective, in particular: ‘poverty’, ‘power’ and ‘ethics’. Building on research by prolific researchers from ten different countries, the book provides a comprehensive and unique insight in the current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the subject. It takes a thorough and critical review of issues associated with slum tourism, asking why slums are visited, whether they should be visited, how they are represented, who is benefiting from it and in what way. It offers new insights to tourism's role in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, power relations in contact zones and tourism's cultural and political implications. Drawing on research from four continents and seven different countries, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of tourism.

Author : Anita Pleumarom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 9675412712

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The Politics of Tourism, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development by Anita Pleumarom Pdf

Author : Richard Sharpley,David J. Telfer
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1873150342

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Tourism and Development by Richard Sharpley,David J. Telfer Pdf

This text explores the role of tourism as a potential contibutor to socio-economic development in destination areas. Establishing a link between tourism studies and development studies, it considers what is meant by development, the processes through which development may be achieved and, in particular, a number of fundamental issues related to the use of tourism as a development agent. In so doing, it challenges conventional thinking about the relationship between tourism and development.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen,Christian M. Rogerson,Haretsebe Manwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317966975

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Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals by Jarkko Saarinen,Christian M. Rogerson,Haretsebe Manwa Pdf

In 2000 United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs), committing the member nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of specific targets with a deadline of 2015. Related to the UN MDGs, tourism is increasingly seen as a promising tool for poverty reduction, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development, for example. Thus, the industry has become an important policy tool for community and regional development in many developing countries and the expectations for tourism and its social and economic outcomes have evolved to a high level. However, there are still many challenges to overcome in the relationship between tourism industry, development and poverty reduction. This book aims to discuss the promises, challenges and outcomes of tourism in development with a specific aim of drawing together research related to tourism and UN MDGs. The papers discuss what lessons can be learnt and conclusions drawn from the utilisation of tourism for development and poverty reduction. What emerges from this collection is a set of interesting results and notions which both support and challenge the connections between tourism and development and the new role of tourism in global development. This book is an extended version of a special issue published in Current Issues in Tourism.

Author : P. Burns,Marina Novelli
Publisher : CABI
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845934262

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Tourism Development by P. Burns,Marina Novelli Pdf

A collection of essays from scholars evaluating tourism as a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic inequalities in poor countries. It takes a look at the successes and failures of tourism in this role, and considers why tourism as a catalyst for economic development can be a controversial device.