An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh

This thesis contributes to the understanding of the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh. It adopts a critical theory approach to investigate the social, economic, physical, cultural and political barriers that exclude rural poor and indigenous...

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Main Author: Islam, Md Faridul
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70465
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description This thesis contributes to the understanding of the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh. It adopts a critical theory approach to investigate the social, economic, physical, cultural and political barriers that exclude rural poor and indigenous communities from tourism development benefits. An integrated model proposes that these communities can be included in tourism development through gaining power, legitimacy and urgency as definitive stakeholders, thereby alleviating extreme poverty in developing countries.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-704652018-09-28T07:16:19Z An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh Islam, Md Faridul This thesis contributes to the understanding of the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh. It adopts a critical theory approach to investigate the social, economic, physical, cultural and political barriers that exclude rural poor and indigenous communities from tourism development benefits. An integrated model proposes that these communities can be included in tourism development through gaining power, legitimacy and urgency as definitive stakeholders, thereby alleviating extreme poverty in developing countries. 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70465 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Islam, Md Faridul
An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh
title An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh
title_full An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh
title_fullStr An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh
title_short An investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh
title_sort investigation into the relationship between tourism development and extreme poverty alleviation in rural bangladesh
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70465