How can social enterprises contribute to sustainable pro-poor tourism development?

作者机构： Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University出版物刊名： 中国人口资源与环境：英文版页码： 159-170页年卷期： 2018年 第2期

摘要：'Tourism-Assisting the Poor' has been an important approach in anti-poverty strategy. Studies suggest that the conventional tourism model fails togenerate benefits for the poor and to some extent enlarges the gap between thepoor and the rich, which subsequently causes more social problems. Pro-poortourism(PPT) is regarded as an alternative model. Precisely targeted assistance tothe poor is the key to initiating this model, while the institutional change andimplementation mechanism are essential to run it successfully and sustainably.Social entrepreneurship focusing on social values while adopting modern businessphilosophy has been introduced recently as an instrument in helping disadvantagepopulation. This paper takes the Smangus community in Taiwan as an example toexplore the role of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in PPTdevelopment. It also discusses their implications for the anti-poverty practice inother regions including ethnic areas in China.