Tourism Policy for Poverty Reduction
- 세계문화관광학회
- International Journal of Culture and tourism Research
- Vol.3 No.1
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2010.12131 - 150 (20 pages)
- 44

This study examines national tourism policies and two provincial tourism strategies of Lao PDR implemented during 1998 to 2010 and tourism strategies for 2020. It argues that poverty reduction has to be started from the policy framework which intentionally facilitating the poor. The discourse reproduces four dimensions of benefit included in tourism policies that can be trickled down to the poor including employment, linkage opportunities, knowledge base, and cultural assets as innovation for destination competitiveness. It can be concluded that those spaces for the poor are formulated under the assumptions of ad hoc policy for the government as a plan for general social economic development rather than focusing on poverty reduction.
[ABSTRACT]
Introduction
Spaces for the Poor in Tourism Development Approaches
Methodology
Context and Tourism Policy in Laos
The Space for the Poor in Tourism Policy
Cultural Asset: An Innovation for Destination Competitiveness
Discussion
Conclusion
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