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The only risk factors involved in writing this paper are coordinating time so that I am not stretched too thin for any one class. At the same time I must balance school work with class work and so that is another factor to consider. Budgeting time incorrectly is the greatest risk factor. To mitigate this risk, I will devise my schedule for the next month at work so that there are no surprises in this area and everything will be clear.

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Can Tourism Reduce Poverty? A Study in Hospitality Management and Socio-Economic Theory

Abstract

The issue of whether tourism can reduce poverty is a complex one that needs special attention. The United Nations have stated that tourism can help to benefit economic development but some researchers are critical of this assertion, indicating that there is no real evidence of correlation. This paper provides a literature review of three studies that examine the relationship between poverty and tourism to see if there is a way to better understand how the latter impacts the former. The findings suggest that there are several variables that need to be considered before the subject can really be understood completely. Those variables consist of power structure, relationships between the host country and power brokers outside the country, whether the host government is strong or weak, and whether the community is dependent upon foreign investment or if...

Governments of developing nations can promote tourism in order to reduce poverty, for example, in regions like Kenya or Southeast Asia. Warm hospitality is a common sense way to attract visitors to places where they have never been but may like to go. The key to this study would be to examine how hospitality, tourism and poverty are related so as to arrive at a better assessment of the interaction.
The purpose of this topic is to provide a literature assessment of the relationship between tourism, hospitality and poverty reduction in various countries around the world so as to draw out themes and concepts that can help students and researchers to better understand the relationship. The findings of this study will be relevant to developing countries, their governments and hospitality managers/sectors within these regions.

Literature Review

The study by Spenceley and Meyer (2012) focuses on the relationship between tourism and poverty reduction in "less economically developed countries" by reviewing community-based tourism projects and "power relations between global players and local communities" (p. 297). The study suggests that various factors and variables involved in this highly-complex relationship require further research and the researchers point to a variety of areas that should be studied more deeply, such as "the importance of private-sector business practices that contribute to poverty reduction" and "how inequitable power relations and weak governance can undermine efforts" (p. 297). The study is valuable overall for its contribution to the literature on the subject but especially for highlighting…