pro-poor tourism

31 10, 2010

Help the poor – and they will become even poorer?!

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“If the current trend [of increasing poverty levels] persists, 40 years from now more than half of the world’s population, or approximately 4 billion individuals, will have to survive on less than two dollars a day.” (PlaNetFinance, n.d.)
Due to this alarming trend, international organizations address this topic and implement poverty reduction in their agenda. […]

31 10, 2010

Tourism in developing countries: "pro-poor" or "pro-rich" tourism?

By |October 31st, 2010|Ungategorized|7 Comments

The prospect of tourism growth in developing countries, where high levels of poverty exists has created enormous attention and interest in tourism as a tool for poverty alleviation. This is often referred to as  ‘pro-poor-tourism’. Pro-poor tourism is broadly defined as a tourism development approach that generates net benefits for the poor (PPT partnership, […]