1. Introduction 2. Poverty and Tourism Unpacked 3. Tourism Entrenches Poverty 4. Poverty Attracts Tourists 5. Tourism Reduces Poverty: Tourism Industry Approaches 6. Tourism Reduces Poverty: Government Approaches 7. Tourism Reduces Poverty: Development Agency Approaches 8. Conclusion
Biography
Regina Scheyvens heads the Institute of Development Studies at Massey University, New Zealand. Here she combines a passion for teaching about international development with research on tourism and development. In 2002 she published Tourism for Development: Empowering Communities, and she has written articles on themes such as backpacker tourism, ecotourism, and sustainable tourism.
"Tourism and Poverty is a welcome and timely contribution to the issue of poverty eradication and the role tourism can or cannot play in that endeavour. Scheyvens presents an intricate and balanced approach to the discussion but in the final analysis finds that tourism must work much harder and on a different footing if it is truly to reach what it purports to achieve. This book will undoubtedly change the way tourism planners and others approach their work and the basic thinking that underlies that toil."
Donald G. Reid, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph
