Tourism and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda

In the past few decades an impressive amount of tourism anddevelopment literature has emerged under terms such as pro-poortourism sustainable tourism responsible tourism ethical tourism orecotourism. Numerous models for analysis and compilations of bestpractice deal with tourism’s poverty reducing impacts on a micro-level.But analyses of macro contexts have at best remained piecemeal.Based on his Ph.D. research the author Dr. Michael Grosspietsch offers afirst attempt to analyze tourism’s poverty-reducing impacts in a holisticway for an entire country. He develops a comprehensive methodologythat borrows from general development economics and internationalrelations and conducts a differential diagnosis for Rwanda. Interlardedwith theoretical introductions to current-day best practice in povertyreduction and tourism as well as one of the most completepresentations of the Rwandan development context this book isvaluable reading material not only for scholars and researchers but alsofor practitioners in the field of responsible tourism.