Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He also holds the position of Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Organisation and Management, Sheffield Hallam University, England. He has published widely in the tourism, environmental history and regional studies fields and has a long standing interest in issues of tourism planning and policy, social marketing and the capacity of tourism to contribute to sustainable development objectives at various scales of governance.

• 1. Editorial - Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the South’? - C. Michael Hall 2. Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework - Weibing Zhao & J. R. Brent Ritchie 3. Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pro-Poor Tourism’ and Implications for Sustainability - Stephanie Chok, Jim Macbeth & Carol Warren 4. Growth Versus Equity: The Continuum of Pro-Poor Tourism and Neoliberal Governance - Daniela Schilcher 5. Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-Based Tourism and the Private Sector - David Harrison & Steven Schipani 6. Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus - Regina Scheyvens 7. Nature-Based Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Impacts of Private Sector and Parastatal Enterprises In and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa - Anna Spenceley & Harold Goodwin

The book offers a descriptive, thematically consistent approach to understanding pro-poor tourism. The conceptualization of the area and drawing together of diverse ideas that surround the subject are the book's strengths.

Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He also holds the position of Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Organisation and Management, Sheffield Hallam University, England. He has published widely in the tourism, environmental history and regional studies fields and has a long standing interest in issues of tourism planning and policy, social marketing and the capacity of tourism to contribute to sustainable development objectives at various scales of governance.

• 1. Editorial - Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the South’? - C. Michael Hall 2. Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework - Weibing Zhao & J. R. Brent Ritchie 3. Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pro-Poor Tourism’ and Implications for Sustainability - Stephanie Chok, Jim Macbeth & Carol Warren 4. Growth Versus Equity: The Continuum of Pro-Poor Tourism and Neoliberal Governance - Daniela Schilcher 5. Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-Based Tourism and the Private Sector - David Harrison & Steven Schipani 6. Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus - Regina Scheyvens 7. Nature-Based Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Impacts of Private Sector and Parastatal Enterprises In and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa - Anna Spenceley & Harold Goodwin

The book offers a descriptive, thematically consistent approach to understanding pro-poor tourism. The conceptualization of the area and drawing together of diverse ideas that surround the subject are the book's strengths.

Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He also holds the position of Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Organisation and Management, Sheffield Hallam University, England. He has published widely in the tourism, environmental history and regional studies fields and has a long standing interest in issues of tourism planning and policy, social marketing and the capacity of tourism to contribute to sustainable development objectives at various scales of governance.

• 1. Editorial - Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the South’? - C. Michael Hall 2. Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework - Weibing Zhao & J. R. Brent Ritchie 3. Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pro-Poor Tourism’ and Implications for Sustainability - Stephanie Chok, Jim Macbeth & Carol Warren 4. Growth Versus Equity: The Continuum of Pro-Poor Tourism and Neoliberal Governance - Daniela Schilcher 5. Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-Based Tourism and the Private Sector - David Harrison & Steven Schipani 6. Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus - Regina Scheyvens 7. Nature-Based Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Impacts of Private Sector and Parastatal Enterprises In and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa - Anna Spenceley & Harold Goodwin

The book offers a descriptive, thematically consistent approach to understanding pro-poor tourism. The conceptualization of the area and drawing together of diverse ideas that surround the subject are the book's strengths.