Poverty Alleviation through Tourism Development - 9781774635551

Apple Academic Press > CRC Press

Poverty Alleviation through Tourism DevelopmentA Comprehensive and Integrated Approach\nAuthor(s): Robertico Croes, Manuel Rivera\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Apple Academic Press Inc., Canada\nImprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.\nISBN-13: 9781774635551, 978-1774635551\nSynopsis\nThe book offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to the topic of tourism development and its contribution to the fight against poverty. Tourism development is credited to be a powerful source of regional development and improvement in developing countries, and the focus of the book is on the worlds poorest areas and how tourism connects to the poor and unlocks opportunities to escape the poverty trap. \n\nThis book takes a comprehensive and unique approach by combining a decade of research on the effects of tourism development on poverty reduction in Latin America. The book explores poverty and its impact on development at the macro and micro levels. Then, it goes on to focus on tourism development a.