"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 …

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Editorial Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the … South’? / Hall, C. Michael -- 2. Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework / Zhao, Weibing / Brent … Ritchie, J. R. -- 3. Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pro-Poor Tourism’ and Implications for …

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 …