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Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Eradication in Kenya

Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Eradication in Kenya

Joan Mwihaki Nyika
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781799856917|ISBN10: 1799856917|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799856924|EISBN13: 9781799856931
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5691-7.ch001
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Nyika, Joan Mwihaki. "Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Eradication in Kenya." Handbook of Research on the Role of Tourism in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Filipa Brandão, et al., IGI Global, 2021, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5691-7.ch001

APA

Nyika, J. M. (2021). Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Eradication in Kenya. In F. Brandão, Z. Breda, R. Costa, & C. Costa (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Role of Tourism in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 1-19). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5691-7.ch001

Chicago

Nyika, Joan Mwihaki. "Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Eradication in Kenya." In Handbook of Research on the Role of Tourism in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Filipa Brandão, et al., 1-19. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5691-7.ch001

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Abstract

Tourism is widely recognised as a tool for poverty alleviation following its ability to create employment, entrepreneurial opportunities, and impact societies' social infrastructure positively. Countries, such as Kenya, have reaped from these benefits following evidence that the sector is the third-largest contributor to the economy following agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Using case studies of the Maasai community and the coastal regional tourism-based of the Bomas and Safaris, this chapter asserts the significance of tourism in poverty reduction among marginalised Kenyan communities. The concept, coupled with ecological sustainability, has opened up societies to share their cultures and tourist attractions for their own benefit. The opportunity cost of these advantages is a rise in local goods and neocolonialism tendencies characterised by dominant foreign control of the tourism sector and its gains, particularly at the coast. This situation is reversible by the adoption of community-based tourism, which ensures that tourism optimally benefits local communities.

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