Pro-Poor Tourism as Approach to Alleviation Poverty: Experiences and Critical Issues

By analyzing 2 pro-poor tourism projects from South Africa ,the main aim of this paper is to obtain similarities and draw experiences to identify key issues which can be adopted in practices for others. Although the type of pro-poor tourism project is impossible to be restricted to a single model, key pro-poor tourism issues could be adopted for the poor areas where tourism is capable to be developed. Index Terms - pro-poor tourism; South Africa;experience; strategy

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