Knowledge Networking Portal for Sustainable & Responsible Tourism
International Tourism and poverty reduction
Despite being the world's largest service sector industry, the importance of the tourism sector for a country’s overall growth performance and, more specifically, for its potential to address both growing inequalities and poverty reduction, have often been neglected by many governmental and non-governmental agencies. Criticism of the “Pro-poor impact” of the tourism sector is often based on either the lack of efficiency of unrestrained economic growth to reduce poverty in parallel to the depletion of environmental resources (Woodward and Simms, 2006), or on the lack of evidence demonstrating the tourism sector’s potential in terms of poverty alleviation (Goodwin 2006, Harrison and Schipani 2007, Scheyvens 2007, Plüss and Bakes 2002 cited in Scheyvens 2009). Therefore, the objective of this course is to review both the debate on tourism as a tool for poverty reduction and the different methods that address the measurement of the so-called “pro-poor impact” of tourism. Finally, we provide concrete examples of what effective strategies to reduce poverty through tourism look like in practice.
| Period | 04/02/2018 |
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| Contact person | Prof. Frederic Thomas |
| Keywords | Tourism, Sustainability Management system, good governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), value systems, capacity building, |
| Target group(s) | Destinations , Businesses , Travellers , Education, Research, Consultancy , NGOs, Partnerships, Networks , Governments & Administrations |
| Topics | Value Chain Management & Fair Trade |
