Tourism has a wide range of impacts on the economy, the natural environment and the people living in a destination. In … the context of poor, rural societies, many scholars have emphasized the positive impacts of tourism on local economic … growth. Concern has been voiced, however, about the social and cultural impacts of tourism due to observed changes in local …

"Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally inclusive of the poor …. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on partial and superficial analysis. Researchers … tourism affects poor people. First, it pulls these together to identify three main pathways by which impacts on poverty can be …