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 …

Tourism continues to be a major activity in India, which inevitably produces economic, political, social, cultural and … ecological consequences. In India, Tourism has created employment opportunities for airline executives, hotel sales managers … prospects and challenges of ‘pro-poor tourism strategies' and its significance in poverty reduction by generating employment in …

alleviate poverty. India is a country with diverse untapped tourism resources and also, a country that has suffered from … persistent poverty. Hence, the tourism sector can act as a panacea to poverty, especially in a developing country like India. In … concludes that despite the massive potential of pro-poor tourism initiatives, the power of tourism to alleviate poverty in India …

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 …