Tourism, poverty and development
<P>Poverty alleviation is high on the global policy agenda, its importance being emphasised by its place as the first of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. As a potentially significant source of economic growth in developing countries, tourism may also play a major role in poverty reduction and alleviation under the right circumstances. The incorporation of tourism into development policy and Poverty Reduction Strategies has special poignancy for those Least Developed Countries w…
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- Full title :Tourism, poverty and development / Andrew Holden.
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<P>Poverty alleviation is high on the global policy agenda, its importance being emphasised by its place as the first of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. As a potentially significant source of economic growth in developing countries, tourism may also play a major role in poverty reduction and alleviation under the right circumstances. The incorporation of tourism into development policy and Poverty Reduction Strategies has special poignancy for those Least Developed Countries where natural resources exist to support a tourism industry and there are limited development alternat.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203861547, 1135175659, 9781135175658, 020386154X, 9780203861547, 9781135175603, 1135175608, 9781135175641, 1135175640
- DOI:10.4324/9780203861547
- oclc:ocn854569032
- LC Classification:G155.D44
- Dewey Decimal:338.4/791091724
Table of Contents
1. Explaining and understanding poverty -- 2. Tourism development : a relationship to poverty? -- 3. Geography of poverty -- 4. The global political economy and structural causes of poverty -- 5. Critiquing tourism and poverty reduction -- 6. A way forward.
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