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Pro-poor tourism is a form of tourism geared and operated to results in, well again, disposable benefits for poor people to benefit from tourism. It operates within their societies and communities as a whole in both developed and developing countries.
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Fang, WT. (2020). Pro-poor Tourism. In: Tourism in Emerging Economies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2463-9_7
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