Pro-poor tourism : who benefits? : perspectives on tourism and poverty reduction / edited by C. Michael Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Colin Michael, 1961-

Series:

Current themes in tourism.

Current themes in tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Channel View Publications, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pro-poor tourism – tourism that is intended to result in increased net benefits for poor people – is currently receiving enormous attention from the World Tourism Organization, the UN system, governments, industry, and NGOs and is an integral component of many sustainable development strategies in the less developed countries. Through a series of cases and reviews from experts in the field 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 tourism’s potential role in poverty reduction. This timely book therefore makes a major contribution to the ongoing debate about tourism’s role in economic development, postcolonial politics, and North-South relations at a time when international trade negotiations appear poised to further open up developing countries to international tourism.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

1. Editorial Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the South’?

2. Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework

3. Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pro-Poor Tourism’ and Implications for Sustainability

4. Growth Versus Equity: The Continuum of Pro-Poor Tourism and Neoliberal Governance

5. Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-Based Tourism and the Private Sector

6. Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus

7. Nature-Based Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Impacts of Private Sector and Parastatal Enterprises In and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610934973

9781280934971

1280934972

9781845410766

1845410769

OCLC:

476087489