Engaging poverty with tourism: Pro-poor tourism perspective

Year 2023, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 93 - 100, 31.07.2023

Oğuz Çolak , Vahit Oğuz Kiper , Said Kıngır

https://doi.org/10.31822/jomat.2023-8-1-93

Abstract

Poverty continues to be one of the most important problems of our time. However, even if different economic measures have been taken to solve poverty, a solution has not been found yet. One of these measures is to ensure the development of tourism in poor regions. The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between tourism and poverty and to examine whether tourism can be a cure for poverty. In order to reach the aim of the research, a theoretical analysis was carried out. As a result of the research, it was concluded that there is no consensus in the literature on the relationship between tourism and poverty. It has been concluded that there are two different approaches in the literature that tourism reduces poverty and, on the contrary, it does not.

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Keywords

tourism, poverty, pro-poor tourism, effects of tourism

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