Subject(s): Macro economics -- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality -- Travel & Tourism. -- Poor -- Tourism : Policy, lack of data, effect on economy, impact on poor people/ local economies , growth and competitiveness -- Three pathways - understanding how tourism affects the poor -- Scale of flows to the poor -- Pathway 1 - Direct effects of tourism on the poor : Labour income, wages, micro, small and informal tourism businesses, non-labour income, non- financial impacts on livelihoods -- Pathways 2 - Secondary benefit flows from tourism to the poor -- Pathway 3 - Dynamic effects on macro and local economies : Infrastructure, and public and social goods, human resource development, changes to the structure of the economy, tourism and agriculture, experienced and captured in the local economy, tourism and long term economic development -- Impacts of different types of tourism -- Methods for assessing the impacts of tourism on poverty : Effect of tourism in economy, effect on local economies in tourist destinations, developing tourist sectors -- Different perspective on tourism and poverty : Policy context, pro-poor share, research, nuanced reality