Hall Pro-poor Tourism: Who Benefits?

Perspectives on Tourism and Poverty Reduction
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84541-076-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 176 Seiten

Reihe: Current Themes In Tourism

Pro-poor tourism is currently receiving enormous attention from the World Tourism Organization, government, industry and NGOs. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, C. Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Editorial - Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the South’? - C. Michael Hall
2. Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework - Weibing Zhao & J. R. Brent Ritchie
3. Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pro-Poor Tourism’ and Implications for Sustainability - Stephanie Chok, Jim Macbeth & Carol Warren
4. Growth Versus Equity: The Continuum of Pro-Poor Tourism and Neoliberal Governance - Daniela Schilcher
5. Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-Based Tourism and the Private Sector - David Harrison & Steven Schipani
6. Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus - Regina Scheyvens
7. Nature-Based Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Impacts of Private Sector and Parastatal Enterprises In and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa - Anna Spenceley & Harold Goodwin

Über Autor(innen)

Hall C. Michael:
Michael Hall is Professor in the School of Business, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and a Visiting Professor, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. He has published widely on tourism, regional development, and environmental change.Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He also holds the position of Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Organisation and Management, Sheffield Hallam University, England. He has published widely in the tourism, environmental history and regional studies fields and has a long standing interest in issues of tourism planning and policy, social marketing and the capacity of tourism to contribute to sustainable development objectives at various scales of governance.