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Tourism and Poverty Reduction
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Pathways to Prosperity
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Jonathan Mitchell and Caroline Ashley
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Encouraging tourism in poor countries is, surprisingly often,
an effective way of achieving poverty reduction through
inclusive economic growth. But not always. Sometimes
international tourism development does little for the local
economy and the livelihoods of the poor. Our understanding
of how tourism affects the poor is often based on partial
and shallow analysis. Researchers from different disciplines
and practitioners with different objectives generally
work in splendid isolation from each other and from the
mainstream of development economics. Rhetoric, based
on unsubstantiated facts, abounds. Detailed economic
analysis remains buried and is rarely challenged for policy
implications, let alone poverty implications.
This book provides an overview and synthesis of a broad
array of analyses of how tourism affects poverty. First, it pulls
these together to identify three main pathways by which
impacts on poverty can be delivered. Second, it reviews
the empirical evidence on the scale and significance of
impact of each pathway, exploring where comparisons can
be made and where they cannot. Finally, it considers the
different methods used to gather and collect data.
Pb • £22.95 £18.00 • 9781844078899
192 pages • December 2009
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. The Three Pathways: Understanding How Tourism Affects the
Poor
3. The Scale of Flows to the Poor
4. Pathway 1: Direct Effects from Tourism to the Poor
5. Pathway 2: Secondary Benefit Flows from Tourism to the Poor
6. Pathway 3: Dynamic Effects on Macro and Local Economies
7. Impacts of Different Types of Tourism
8. Methods for Assessing the Impacts of Tourism on Poverty
9. A Different Perspective on Tourism and Poverty
Index
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‘Tourism and Poverty Reduction’ draws on international
evidence throughout, but provides particular insights into
Africa and other less developed countries. The key aims
are to enhance understanding of how tourism can affect
poverty; the conditions under which poverty reduction can
be achieved and the type of data and analysis policy-makers
need in order to do this. It makes a major contribution to a
more coherent, cross-disciplinary and sensitive approach to
the tourism-poverty debate.
Jonathan Mitchell is a Research Fellow, and Caroline
Ashley was formerly a Research Fellow, at the Overseas
Development Institute, a development policy ‘think tank’
based in London (UK).
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Tourism Development and
the Environment: Beyond
Sustainability?
Richard Sharpley
Pb • £22.95 £18.00 • 9781844077335 240 pages • August 2009
‘[This book] is a timely, refreshing, and thoughtprovoking critique of sustainable tourism
development. Challenging us to re-examine the
very nature of sustainability, globalisation, and the
tourism industry as a capitalist endeavour, it is essential reading [which is]
sure to generate future debate.’
David J. Telfer, Department of Tourism and Environment, Brock
University, Canada
Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability?
challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has
come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism
development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable
tourism debate beyond the arguably managerialist ‘blueprint’ and
destination-focused approach that continues to characterise even
the most recent ‘sustainability’ agenda within tourism development.
Reviewing the evolution of the sustainable tourism development
concept, its contemporary manifestations in academic literature and
policy developments and processes, the author compares its limitations to
prevailing political-economic, socio-cultural and environmental contexts.
He then proposes alternative approaches to tourism development which,
nevertheless, retain environmental sustainability as a prerequisite of
tourism development.
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Responsible
Tourism
Critical Issues for
Conservation and
Development
Your Passport to Exciting
Alternative Holidays
Diversity and Divergence
Edited by Shalini Singh
Edited by Anna Spenceley
Pb • £29.95 £24.00
9781849710701 • 416 pages
April 2010
Polly Pattullo, Orely Minelli,
Patrick Hourmant, Paul
Smith, Lee Viesnik and Amica
Dall
Hb • £60.00 £48.00
9781844076604 • 368 pages
June 2009
This book is the first to
address specifically the continuities and
changes in domestic tourism in Asia. It explores
the ethos of domestic travel and holidaymaking in order to understand the distinctive
common strands that underlie conventional
and contemporary tourism practices, against
the local and global backdrop. A considerable
range of countries is covered in the case studies,
including those with patrimonial histories,
namely China and India, the economically
developed nation-state of Japan and the
microstates of Taiwan, Singapore, Macao and
Hong Kong, besides the coastal countries of
Malaysia, Philippines, Laos and Vietnam.
This volume delves deep into practice in
southern Africa, the hotbed of innovation
on the issue, and provides a comprehensive,
evidence-based examination of what works
and what fails, using a wealth of information
from scholars and practitioners working in
the region. This book opens with an overview
of the issues, looks at what sustainable and
responsible tourism are in practice and how
they may contribute to conservation, poverty
alleviation and local economic development.
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The Ethical Travel
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Domestic Tourism
in Asia
Pb • £14.99 £12.00
9781844077595 • 288 pages • May 2009
This fully revised second edition of The Ethical
Travel Guide is the essential resource for
responsible global travel, providing a wealth of
new ideas for your next holiday. The extensive
directory has been updated and expanded,
listing hundreds of places to visit and stay in
countries all over the world. There is something
for every taste and budget. A thorough
introduction gives a background to the many
ethical and practical issues involved, including a
new section on travel and climate change.
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