AN EXAMINATION OF TOURISM AS A TOOL TO CONFRONT POVERTY

 

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Autore: Croes, Robertico
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2012
Descrizione:The poverty has been a phenomenom that has delayed and transformed the latinoamericam societies. One of each three persons that live in Latinoamerica is considerate poor, qualifier that makes reference to those people that do not have sufficient resources to satisfy their basic needs. Because of that, the present article pretends to pose the tourism activity as an alternative to figth the poverty on developing countries, this because the tourism generates employemet, currency, incomes to the governments and business opportunities. So this work is aimed to research the empirical relation between international tourism, economic growth, the reduction of poverty and quality of life in Costa Rica and Nicaragua the relation tourism-economic growth-poverty reduction, is focused to in time frame 1980-2005 and the relation tourisn and life quality is focused in the period 1990-2010.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UCR
Istituzione:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/1418
Accesso online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rdialogos/article/view/1418
Keyword:Poverty, tourism, Latinoamerica, economic growty
Pobreza, turismo, Latinoamérica, crecimiento económico