Tourism and Poverty Reduction

Principles and impacts in developing countries

Anna Spenceley, Dorothea Meyer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781317387015
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Tourism and poverty reduction: principles and impacts in developing countries
• 2. Tourism and development at work: 15 years of tourism and poverty reduction within the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
• 3. Influenced and influential: the role of tour operators and development organisations in tourism and poverty reduction in Ecuador
• 4. Community-based tourism enterprises: challenges and prospects for community participation; Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust, Botswana
• 5. Blessing or curse? The political economy of tourism development in Tanzania
• 6. Tourism revenue sharing policy at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: a policy arrangements approach
• 7. Community-based cultural tourism: issues, threats and opportunities
• 8. The role of tourism employment in poverty reduction and community perceptions of conservation and tourism in southern Africa
• 9. Tourism and poverty alleviation in Fiji: comparing the impacts of small- and large-scale tourism enterprises
• 10. A critical analysis of tourism, gender and poverty reduction
• 11. Can ecotourism deliver real economic, social, and environmental benefits? A study of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
• 12. Value chain approaches to assessing the impact of tourism on low-income households in developing countries
• 13. Tourism–agriculture linkages in rural South Africa: evidence from the accommodation sector
• 14. Social enterprises in tourism: an exploratory study of operational models and success factors
• Index