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Poor cousins no more: valuing the development potential of domestic and diaspora tourism

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dc.contributor.author Scheyvens, Regina
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-30T22:27:12Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-30T22:27:12Z
dc.date.issued 2007
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/798
dc.description pages 307 - 325 ; ill en_US
dc.description.abstract In many countries there is an insidious perception that domestic tourism is the ‘poorcousin’ of the more glamorous international tourism market. Yet domestic tourism constitutes the vast majority of tourist flows world wide, and there has been significant growth within Third World countries in particular coinciding with an increase in numbers of middle-income earners. Simultaneously there has been a tendency to take for granted return visits by overseas-based nationals, the diaspora. Using a case study of Samoa, where the development of basic beach huts has provided a low-cost vacation option for both local and overseas-based Samoan tourists, this article demonstrates how domestic tourism can have significant economic, socio-cultural and political benefits. As such, domestic and diaspora tourism deserve more serious consideration than they have been granted by most governments and by tourism and development researchers to date. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Sage Publications en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Articles in Progress in Development Studies;Volume 7 Issue 4
dc.subject Domestic tourism en_US
dc.subject Diaspora en_US
dc.subject VFRs en_US
dc.subject Samoa en_US
dc.subject Benefits en_US
dc.subject Poverty-alleviation en_US
dc.title Poor cousins no more: valuing the development potential of domestic and diaspora tourism en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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