Pro-Poor Tourism: Who Benefits?: Perspectives on Tourism and Poverty Reduction Contributor(s): Hall, C. Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1845410750 ISBN-13: 9781845410759 Publisher: Channel View Publications
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: September 2007 Click for more in this series: Current Themes in Tourism |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism |
Dewey: 647 |
LCCN: 2007029620 |
Series: Current Themes in Tourism |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.6" W x 9.8" L (1.00 lbs) 176 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 76 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Pro-poor tourism - tourism that is intended to result in increased net benefits for poor people - is currently receiving enormous attention from the World Tourism Organization, the UN system, governments, industry, and NGOs and is an integral component of many sustainable development strategies in the less developed countries. Through a series of cases and reviews from experts in the field this book provides one of the first assessments of the effectiveness of pro-poor tourism as a development strategy and tackles the issue of who benefits from tourism's potential role in poverty reduction. This timely book therefore makes a major contribution to the ongoing debate about tourism's role in economic development, postcolonial politics, and North-South relations at a time when international trade negotiations appear poised to further open up developing countries to international tourism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hall, C. Michael: - C. Michael Hall is Professor in Marketing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and Visiting Professor, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. His key research interests include sustainability, tourism planning and policy, and global environmental change. |
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