Can tourism help to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere”? The challenge of tourism addressing SDG1
By R. Scheyvens, Emma Hughes. Activating Critical Thinking to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals in Tourism Systems, 2019
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Abstract SDG1 presents the global community with an important, but highly challenging goal. When discussing tourism’s potential to contribute to SDG1 to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere”, the multidimensional nature of poverty must be considered rather than focusing solely on economic deprivation. Specifically, we need to shift the focus beyond how tourism can foster economic growth, provide jobs and income, to considering sociopolitical aspects of poverty and how structural inequalities are impeding people’s development. The contradictions involved in poor people, in poor locations, with poor labour rights, putting on smiling faces to serve rich guests of former colonial powers and to clean up their messes, should not be overlooked if we are genuinely interested in challenging the negative aspects of global tourism and making it more equitable and sustainable in the future. Thus, if governments and tourism industry players wish to do more than pay lip service to SDG1, they will need to make some significant changes to the way in which they work. This article will draw inspiration from tourism businesses in Fiji that are addressing SDG1 and related goals, and discuss how they have the potential to contribute to longer-term sustainable development.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Demography, Sociology and Political Science
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- C. Michael Hall
- Daniel Scott
- S. Gössling
- Regis Musavengane
- L. Leonard
- P. Siakwah
- Susanne Becken
- J. Saarinen
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- Global tourism vulnerability to climate change (2019, background): “…research on tourism and climate change in the context of less developed countries (Hall et al., 2015; Scott, Hall, & Gössling, 2016) and the potential implications for tourism as a means of poverty reduction and sustainable development (Scheyvens & Hughes, 2018; UNWTO, 2017; World Bank, 2017).”
- Tourism Governance and Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa (2019, background): “Based on the broad framework, various sectors, including tourism fashioned out strategies to attain global SDGs. Notably, in tourism, this led to the declaration of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the UNWTO (UNWTO, 2016).”