To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), precisely the one of eradicating extreme poverty at the end of 2030, it is important to understand factors that can reduce poverty. This article examines the effects of tourism development on poverty in Sub-Saharan African countries. Because of...

The problem of poverty, which has arisen as a result of the implementation of globalization policies and which continues increasingly, and which makes itself felt with economic crises, has a negative impact on individuals in disadvantaged groups all over the world. 70% of the poor people on earth...

Debates about the value of pro-poor tourism indicated a need to revisit the links between the dynamics of tourism and hospitality enterprises and community poverty in rural South African towns. The numbers of tourism and hospitality enterprises in these towns are related to population numbers by a...

In recent years, poverty has been growing continuously throughout the parts of the world, most notably in developing countries like the Philippines. The purpose of this study is to assess the contributions of the tourism industry in selected destinations of Ilocos Region to successfully alleviate...

Taking the old revolutionary base areas of four counties in Henan province as the research area, based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), the theoretical model of residents' willingness to participate in poverty alleviation through tourism was constructed and tested by using structural...

This study sought to identify issues and challenges of pro-poor tourism (PPT) by concentrating on a tourism development program implemented in three selected villages of Shahrud County, Iran. The results indicated that the major proportion of financial and non-financial support in the tourism,...

Although the greater development of China's society and economy is sound, large numbers of poor people exist in many areas in the country. Poverty alleviation is therefore one of the Chinese government's priorities. Most of the country's underdeveloped and poor areas have well-protected natural...

The research of modern tourism created by Dean MacCannell, which was brought forward due to the attention on the phenomenon of mass tourism, has greatly promoted the development of tourism sociology. Although this paradigm gives full scope to tourism phenomenon and tourism research, it ignores the...

By using geographic spatial analysis method, correlation analysis method, and spatial analysis tool ArcGIS 10.2, this study explored the spatial distribution characteristics and their formation causes of 280 national pro-poor tourism demonstration projects in China. The results indicated that: (1)...