Viewpoint: How pro-poor is business tourism in the global South?

International Development Planning Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages v-xiv

  Rogerson, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; LOW INCOME POPULATION; POVERTY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA;

EID: 84913607277     PISSN: 14746743     EISSN: 14783401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.2014.29     Document Type: Review

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