Tourism, Poverty and Development

• Main Author: Holden, Andrew 1960- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2013
• Subjects: Tourism > Developing countries; Poverty > Developing countries; Economic development > Developing countries
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• Physical Description: xiii, 200 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780415566261; 0415566266

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.