Tourism and Poverty Reduction

Anna Spenceley is an international consultant working on innovative solutions in global sustainable tourism. She is Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas: Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, and editor of Responsible Tourism: Critical issues for Conservation and Development (2010). Dorothea Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Tourism, and leads the special interest research group ‘Political Economy of Tourism for Development', at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She specialises in the political economy of tourism development, and the role of tourism as an agent for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries.

• 1. Tourism and poverty reduction: Principles and impacts in developing countries Section 1: Development agency strategies and approaches 2. Tourism and development at work: 15 years of tourism and poverty reduction within the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation 3. Influenced and influential: the role of tour operators and development organisations in tourism and poverty reduction in Ecuador 4. Community-based tourism enterprises: challenges and prospects for community participation; Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust, Botswana Section 2: Governance and biodiversity conservation 5. Blessing or curse? The political economy of tourism development in Tanzania 6. Tourism revenue sharing policy at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: a policy arrangements approach 7. Community-based cultural tourism: issues, threats and opportunities Section 3: Assessment of tourism impacts 8. The role of tourism employment in poverty reduction and community perceptions of conservation and tourism in southern Africa 9. Tourism and poverty alleviation in Fiji: comparing the impacts of small- and large-scale tourism enterprises 10. A critical analysis of tourism, gender and poverty reduction 11. Can ecotourism deliver real economic, social, and environmental benefits? A study of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Section 4: Value chain analysis and inter-sectoral linkages 12. Value chain approaches to assessing the impact of tourism on low-income households in developing countries 13. Tourism–agriculture linkages in rural South Africa: evidence from the accommodation sector 14. Social enterprises in tourism: an exploratory study of operational models and success factors