Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Pathways to Prosperity

by Caroline Ashley and Jonathan Mitchell

Book Overview

Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on partial and superficial 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. Detailed economic analysis remains buried...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844078892
• ISBN13: 9781844078899
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"