The paper deals with the role of tourism in reducing poverty in upland economies. Taking cases from China and India, it … explores the local segments of the tourism value chain, or the local linkages of tourism. In assessing the impact on poverty it … looks at both the local share of tourist expenditure and the size of the tourism sector. Local benefits are looked at from …

The tourism-poverty alleviation nexus is becoming an increasingly significant subject of academic inquiry within the …) and poverty alleviation (final household consumption) with tourism arrivals as the control variable within the context of … arrivals did not influence poverty in the BRICS. The results point to the heterogeneity of the influence of tourism on poverty …