CONTENTS:- Introduction; Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Elimination; Tourism and National Development: A Comparative Study; Contribution of Tourism to Poverty Reduction; Tourism and Poverty Elimination; Addressing Poverty Issues in Tourism Standards; Tourism and Local Economic Development; The Challenges of Assessing the Poverty Impact of Ethical Trading; Economic Significance of Tourism in Developing Countries; Tourism Benefitting the Poor; Differential Impacts of Tourism on the Poor; Harnessing Tourism for Poverty Elimination: A Blue Print from the Gambia.
DESCRIPTION
Tourism that generates net benefits for the poor is defined as Pro-poor Tourism. An analysis of tourism data shows that in most countries with high levels of poverty, tourism in significant or growing. Tourism is therefore a fact of life for many of the poor people of the world.
