Challenges and potential for linking tourism and agriculture to achieve pro-poor tourism objectives

Rebecca Torres and Janet Henshall Momsen
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Rebecca Torres: Department of Geography, East Carolina University, USA, torresr@mail.ecu.edu, rebeccatorres@earthlink.net
Janet Henshall Momsen: Department of Human and Community Development, University of California Davis, USA

Progress in Development Studies, 2004, vol. 4, issue 4, 294-318

Abstract: With tourism rapidly increasing in developing nations there is an emerging focus on integrating pro-poor tourism into both the international tourism and aid agendas. Following a brief review of the pro-poor tourism literature, this article argues for the explicit creation of tourism and agriculture linkages to achieve pro-poor tourism objectives. To understand both the potential and the problems associated with linking the two sectors, we present an in-depth case study of tourism and agriculture in Cancun, Mexico. The case study draws on the perspectives of Cancun hotel chefs, who control hotel food purchasing, and Quintana Roo farmers, who have attempted to supply the tourism industry, to provide a unique thorough examination of the challenges and potential for such linkages in a mass tourism resort.

Keywords: agriculture; Cancun; Mexico; Quintana Roo; pro-poor; tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1191/1464993404ps092oa

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