Keywords
Poverty, tourism, Latinoamerica, economic growth
Abstract
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.
Publication Date
10-1-2012
Original Citation
Croes, R. (2012). Una Exploracion de la Potencial del Turismo en la Lucha contra la Pobreza en America Latina. Dialogos, Octubre, 41-63.
Number of Pages
41-63
Document Type
Paper
Language
Spanish
Source Title
Dialogos
Volume
13
Copyright Status
Unknown
Publication Version
Publisher's version
Copyright Date
2012-10-01
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
College
Rosen College of Hospitality Management
Location
Rosen College of Hospitality Management
STARS Citation
Croes, Robertico, "Una Exploracion de la Potencial del Turismo en la Lucha contra la Pobreza en America Latina" (2012). Rosen Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 459.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/rosenscholar/459