Pro-poor Tourism

Sustainability
March
2013

Statement of authorship

I certify that this assignment is my own work and contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any degree or diploma in any institute, college or university. Moreover, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text of the dissertation.

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Table of Contents
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Introduction
(A) The Theoretical Aspects of Pro-poor Tourism
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(B) Positive and Negative Example of Pro-Poor Practices
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(C) Local Participation and Pro-poor Tourism Debates
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(D) Discussion on How Pro-Poor Tourism can Sustain Local Area
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(E) Conclusion
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The following paper provides research, review, and analysis of different aspects of pro-poor tourism. Firstly, the pro-poor tourism debate starts with the theoretical aspects of the net benefits and implementation of strategies. Secondly, positive and negative examples of pro-poor approaches are provided to show framework of the theories. Thirdly, the local-community is reviewed and debated to analyze the community approach towards a pro-poor attempt. Finally, I discuss the previous three sectors, suggest a potentially successful strategy, and conclude an analysis on pro-poor tourism implementation.
A) The Theoretical Aspects of Pro-poor Tourism
A lot of sustainability research reference Caroline Ashley’s broad definition of pro-poor tourism; “increasing net benefits of the poor.” (Ashley & Haysom, 2006, p. 266) However, many

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