Tourism, Development and Inequality: The Case of Tanzania. Issue 1 (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo
• Is Part Of: Poverty & public policy. Volume 7:Issue 1(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 64
• Page End: 79
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Poverty -- Periodicals; Poverty -- Government policy -- Periodicals; 353.5332
• DOI: 10.1002/pop4.92
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1944-2858

Abstract

Abstract : For most of the post WWII era, scholars have attempted to understand, define and measure development. A large and growing body of work has in fact investigated its causes and the consequences and have dissented as to whether tourism represents a proper determinant of growth and development. Yet, while scholars have started investigating the contribution that tourism can make to economic growth and development from the 1970s onward, considerably less attention has been paid to assessing whether tourism‐induced growth is pro‐poor or not—that is whether tourism‐induced growth and development contribute to the reduction of poverty and income inequality.