Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes: Volume 6 Issue 3

Cultural heritage tourism on Peru's north coast

Natalie M. Underberg-Goode

This paper aims to focus on the impact of cultural heritage tourism in North Coast Peru on local communities and artists, in particular, on efforts to use the burgeoning interest…

Reflections on archaeology, poverty and tourism in the Bolivian Amazon

John H. Walker

This paper aims to argue that one of the ways of enabling tourism to become sustainable is for archaeologists to relate archaeology to poverty, while being aware of the process of…

Wilderness tourism – alleviating poverty through empowering local people: A case of Bangor Ridge

Ibrahim Ajagunna, Fritz Pinnock, Robert Kerr

This paper aims to examine how “wilderness tourism” is being successfully used to promote tourism development in the economically depressed community of Bangor Ridge in Jamaica…

An inward look using backward economic linkages in a developing country: The case of Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Kelly J. Semrad, Jorge Bartels Villanueva

The purpose of this study is to explore potential reasons that might explain why locally owned tourism firms cheat the use of backward economic linkages that (when used) might…

Rise and fall of community-based tourism – facilitators, inhibitors and outcomes

Asli D.A. Tasci, Robertico Croes, Jorge Bartels Villanueva

The aim of the current study is to use a city case study from Costa Rica to evaluate the Nash equilibrium point and Anna Karenina Principle in relation to community-based tourism…

The triangle of poverty, economic growth, and inequality in Central America: does tourism matter?

Manuel Vanegas

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between tourism, economic growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in the five countries of Central America (Costa Rica, El…

Tourism and poverty reduction in Latin America: where does the region stand?

Robertico Croes

This paper aims to critically review the contributions made by the articles in this theme issue with reference to the literature and by examining the link between tourism and…

Editorial

Robertico Croes