Modern tourism is characterized with green low-carbon, sustainable utilization, multiplier effect, and benefiting the people. It should play an important or leading role in how to promote precisely targeted poverty alleviation. For the government, the tourist industry and academia, it is the most...

In the era of mass tourism, phenomena such as sustainable tourism, responsible tourism, rural tourism, eco-tourism, pro-poor tourism and community-based tourism are now increasingly under the research microscope. If established and managed correctly, these alternative forms of tourism have the...

As an important means of targeting poverty alleviation and eradication, pro-poor tourism is key to lifting impoverished farmers and herders in the Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province out of poverty. Against the background of these areas building comprehensive pro-poor tourism experimental zones and...

Tourism geography has developed into a dynamic sub-discipline of contemporary South African geographical scholarship. The investigation provides an overview of the development of South African tourism geography since the early 1970 s, and traces its subsequent development. Since the first...

Pro-poor tourism is an important way to eliminate poverty. This paper summarizes the unique advantages of pro-poor tourism and lists the difficulties which the poor areas have to face. It is stated that some of the difficulties are inherent and others arise during the development of tourism and the ...

For the most part, researchers of pro-poor tourism have focused on the issues of poverty alleviation, and the recipient communities at the visited destination. By comparison relatively little has been said about the effect of travel and the tourist experience on the tourists themselves; a gap this...

Alternative forms of tourism development from its conventional approach such as community-based tourism (CBT) and pro-poor tourism (PPT) are proposed to be specifically relevant to alleviate poverty and facilitate the development of disadvantaged community members. The intention of this review...

Compassion is defined and identified in this paper as a powerful and universal motivator for actions that could help attain sustainable outcomes and enable aspirational forms of sustainable tourism, including just tourism, hopeful tourism and enlightened mass tourism that have not yet demonstrated...

Options for enhancing tourism economic benefits to host communities are explored, including the community-based tourism (CBT) approach and the pro-poor tourism (PPT) model. Given the limitations of the PPT model, a pro-poor tourism value chain (TVC) approach is proposed. It is argued that the TVC...

Heritage planning in Ghana is mainly governed by the idea of sustainable pro-poor tourism, but is only marginally integrated with general planning programmes and fragmentally addressed by policy-makers. Motivated by the general lack of research on heritage policy in Ghana, this paper examines the...