Tourism and inequality problems and prospects

As its title suggests, this book seeks to make a distinctive contribution to the tourism and inequality debate, not only through its investigation of how and why tourism contributes to and refl ects social inequality, but crucially through its exploration of the ways in which tourism can be a means to reduce social inequality or alleviate its impact. As such, it is firmly located within ‘hopeful tourism scholar ship’, an emerging paradigm within the field, which advocates linking critical thinking, pedagogy and action to achieve more just societies in and through tourism (Ateljevic et al., 2007a; Ren et al., in press). Tourism is frequently described as one of the world’s fastest growing industries and a new source of wealth creation in deprived regions and less developed nations.

Từ khóa: Tourism and inequality problems and prospects, tourism industry, social economic, tourism educators, thương mại du lịch, kinh tế du lịch