Poverty Elimination Through Tourism Dynamics

Abstract

This chapter focuses on poverty elimination through tourism dynamics. The tourism sector, it is argued, offers a well-structured road through which developing countries can both effectively work as an instrument to reduce or even eliminate poverty and enhance the level of economic growth. The proposed hypothesis of tourism expansion-led poverty reduction framework is integrated in a continuum paradigm. As such, a tourism destination needs to harness and manage well the elements of the continuum dynamics of the competitive tourism management framework. As suggested by the overwhelming evidence, socialists, capitalists, communists, developed and developing countries, small islands, and least developed countries have followed the route of tourism as a priority instrument of economic growth and development and compete ferociously in the international market to transport more tourists to their tourism destinations. In tourism, there is no need for tourism negotiations; the borders already have been, still are, and will remain opened up, and with both money and passport, barriers are nonexistent and the dollar is spread all over the geographical configuration of a destination. All these democratize the dollar and build echo back and echo forward linkages of people between the residents of the origin market and the tourism destination.