1st Edition

Tourism and Poverty Reduction Principles and impacts in developing countries

Edited By Anna Spenceley, Dorothea Meyer Copyright 2016
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of publications that have analysed and critiqued the potential of tourism to be a mechanism for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries (LEDCs). This book showcases work by established and emerging researchers that provides new thinking and tests previously made assumptions, providing an essential guide for... Read more

1. Tourism and poverty reduction: Principles and impacts in developing countries  Anna Spenceley and Dorothea Meyer

Section 1: Development agency strategies and approaches

2. Tourism and development at work: 15 years of tourism and poverty reduction within the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation  John Hummel and Rene van der Duim

3. Influenced and influential: the role of tour operators and development organisations in tourism and poverty reduction in Ecuador  Louise Mary Erskine and Dorothea Meyer

4. Community-based tourism enterprises: challenges and prospects for community participation; Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust, Botswana  Lesego Senyana Stone and Tibabo Moren Stone

Section 2: Governance and biodiversity conservation

5. Blessing or curse? The political economy of tourism development in Tanzania  Fred Nelson

6. Tourism revenue sharing policy at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: a policy arrangements approach  Wilber Manyisa Ahebwa, Rene van der Duim, and Chris Sandbrook

7. Community-based cultural tourism: issues, threats and opportunities  Noel B. Salazar

Section 3: Assessment of tourism impacts

8. The role of tourism employment in poverty reduction and community perceptions of conservation and tourism in southern Africa  Susan Lynne Snyman

9. Tourism and poverty alleviation in Fiji: comparing the impacts of small- and large-scale tourism enterprises  Regina Scheyvens and Matt Russell

10. A critical analysis of tourism, gender and poverty reduction  Hazel Tucker and Brenda Boonabaana

11. Can ecotourism deliver real economic, social, and environmental benefits? A study of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica  Carter A. Hunt, William H. Durham, Laura Driscoll and Martha Honey

Section 4: Value chain analysis and inter-sectoral linkages

12. Value chain approaches to assessing the impact of tourism on low-income households in developing countries  Jonathan Mitchell

13. Tourism–agriculture linkages in rural South Africa: evidence from the accommodation sector  Christian M. Rogerson

14. Social enterprises in tourism: an exploratory study of operational models and success factors  Janina von der Weppen and Janet Cochrane

Biography

Anna Spenceley is an international consultant working on innovative solutions in global sustainable tourism. She is Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas: Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, and editor of Responsible Tourism: Critical issues for Conservation and Development (2010).

Dorothea Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Tourism, and leads the special interest research group ‘Political Economy of Tourism for Development', at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She specialises in the political economy of tourism development, and the role of tourism as an agent for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries.