Tourism and poverty relief

Contextualising Tourism - Poverty Alleviation Linkages

Introduction Tourism is considered as one of the fascinating facets of the socio-economic development of modern times. It is about people, places, structures and interactions of varying nature and intensities that eventually contribute emergence of a diverse set of outcomes viz. economic, socio-cultural and environmental. Perhaps the reach and linkages of tourism is far wider and complex and th...

Sustainable Tourism and Eradication of Poverty (Step): impact assessment of a tourism development program in Brazil

This paper aims to evaluate the social impacts of the Tourism Development Program (Prodetur) in the northeastern town of Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil. The method used is based on the difference in difference technique applied to the 1991 and 2000 Census microdata. The results suggest social advances following from poverty relief based on income — where the benefits are distributed, generally, in...

Tourism and Poverty Reduction in Kenya: A Dynamic CGE Analysis

The aim of this paper is to investigate the claim that tourism development can be the engine for poverty reduction in Kenya using a dynamic, micro-simulation computable general equilibrium model. The paper improves on the common practice in the literature by using the more comprehensive Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) index to measure poverty instead of headcount ratios only. Simulations results f...

Living in Hope: Tourism and Poverty Alleviation in Flores?1

Problems of Rural Medical Relief in India. Poverty Amidst Plenty