Making ethnic tourism good for the poor

• Main Authors: LOR, Jean Junying, KWA, Shelly, DONALDSON, John A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: China; Power; Pro-poor tourism; Rural development; Asian Studies; Inequality and Stratification; Politics and Social Change; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Rural Sociology; Tourism and Travel
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2850; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4107/viewcontent/Making_ethnic_tourism_good_2019_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How can ethnic tourism alleviate rural poverty? Due to the difficulty of simultaneously expanding tourism while promoting pro-poor tourism, most villages traverse one of two developmental pathways: 1) ensuring an inclusive structure before expanding, or 2) expanding before building an inclusive stru...