EDRD 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ecotourism, Free Market, Naivety

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 4010
• Professor: Marianne Staempfli

Document Summary

Pro-poor tourism: (cid:494)an approach that seeks to utilize tourism as a strategic tool to alleviate poverty among marginalized communities(cid:495) capable of regulating the tourism industry and distributing assets. Necessary to shift policy focus from growth to equity which calls for strong institutions. Net benefits to the poor remains disproportionately lower than the benefits to the more well off and externally organized tourism operators. Volunteer tourism (ex. orphanage tourism): can be detrimental to the host communities, children can suffer severe social-psychological traumas. Eco-tourism: need awareness of values and ethical conduct. Markets: segment, volume and mode, seasonality, origins. Accommodation: size, spatial pattern, density, architecture, ownership. Economic status: role of tourism, linkages, leakages, multiplier effect. Criticized that although tourism can bring economic growth, employment, initiatives); Criticisms regarding alternative tourism: entrepreneurship and inter-sectorial linkages, tourism can create disparities. Real disconnect exists between conservation and development.