Tourism and Socio-economic Development in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Mombasa Resort in Kenya

By J. Akama, D. Kieti. 2007

282 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Ngoasong
2. A. Kimbu
3. A. Spenceley
4. D. Meyer
5. C. Rogerson

In Transportation

1. M. Ngoasong
2. A. Kimbu
3. A. Spenceley
4. D. Meyer

Citations in the corpus

• Tourism and poverty reduction: theory and practice in less economically developed countries (2012, background): “Other evaluations have looked at the economic impacts of large resorts (e.g. Akama & Kieti, 2007; Ashley, Goodwin, & McNab, 2005; Barrowclough, 2007; Mitchell & Faal, 2006; Torres & Momsen, 2004), but this study provides an interesting comparison of the impacts of differently sized tourism…”
• Informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship (2016, background): “…tourism entrepreneurship is a process where small private firms and local communities (Brown, 1998a, 1998b) are encouraged and supported to use tourism to promote local development and vice versa (Akama & Kieti, 2007; Brown, 1998a; Ramukumba, Mmbengwa, Mwamayi, & Groenewald, 2012).”