This project provides the opportunity to understand the overall developmental impact of the hotel sector on contrasting developing economies. Hotels can be powerful local economic engines as much of the revenue they generate may flows back into the homes of locally-based employees and businesses that, in turn, spend and pay taxes in the local economy thereby generating indirect and induced economic impacts.
The following tasks will be performed:
1. Analyse the effect that the GPRSP-II, labour legislation, and the tourism investment policy have had on the type of linkages that the tourism sector generates with poor households.
2. Analyse the value chains of tourism, including the role of selected agricultural and fisheries products, making a comparison between all-inclusive type of accommodations of Boa Vista and Sal with the more integrated accommodations of Santo Antão and Fogo.
Looking at the interface between knowledge, policy and power, this research project will primarily focus on scoping possible issues for the Nepal Centre for Inclusive Growth (CIG) to address.
The World Tourism Organisation argues that responsible tourism can play a significant role in eradicating poverty and meeting the millennium development goals. But is it right?
Pro-poor tourism has had a significant impact on the ‘tourism and development’ agenda, but is unlikely to become hegemonic. Its impact on broader development debates, the mainstream tourism industry, and the public has been more limited.
Jonathan Mitchell and Caroline Ashley launched their new book, ‘Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Pathways to Prosperity’, which examines the poverty-reducing impacts of tourism across a range of developing countries.
This blog summarises findings of a recent book written by the ODI Tourism Programme, on ways tourism can reduce poverty in the developing world.
This book provides an overview of a broad array of analyses of how tourism affects poor people. First, it pulls these together to identify three main pathways by which impacts on poverty can be delivered. Second, it reviews the empirical evidence on the scale and significance of impacts within each pathway, exploring where comparisons can be made and where they cannot. Finally, it considers the different methods used to gather and collect data, and implications for how we should work in the future.