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"The 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 world's poorest areas and how tourism connects to the poor and unlocks opportunities to escape the poverty trap. This book takes an all-embracing and unique approach that combines a decade of empirical research on the effects of tourism development on poverty reduction in Latin America. The book identifies, explores, confirms, and advances the theoretical concepts of poverty and its impact on development at the macro and micro levels. The book then goes on to prove relevancy of tourism development theory by working in a real world environment and by quantifying its effects on growth, inequality, and poverty reduction. More specifically the book presents how these dynamic relationships affect the most vulnerable groups of society. The research also documents how the poor perceive tourism development on their lives and if they see it as an important vehicle to help them escape from povert

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Author

Croes, Robertico, Rivera, Manuel

Publisher

Apple Academic Press, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429155147

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, Economics, Science