Tourism-Driven Inclusive Growth – Insights from Brazil’s Northeast
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The concept of inclusive growth focuses on the relationship between economic growth, poverty and inequality and has started to receive greater attention in tourism research. Bakker, presents a Tourism-driven Inclusive Growth Diagnostic Framework (T-DIGD) to systematically analyse factors that constrain tourism’s ability to drive inclusive growth and identify policy priorities at national level. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study applies the T-DIGD to a local destination in the Northeast of Brazil to assess its practical applicability, identify any gaps, and enhance its value as a diagnostic tool for tourism-driven inclusive growth. Findings confirm the framework’s strength in analysing constraints for tourism-driven inclusive growth in a systematic manner. It is argued that governance, power in terms of access to networks and connections, as well as the political economy should be more explicitly incorporated into the T-DIGD, and further attention should be given to equality in non-monetary outcomes of tourism opportunities.
Source: Tourism Planning & Development
Authors: Theres Winter, Seonyoung Kim, Nicola Palmer
Institutions: University of Lincoln, Sheffield Hallam University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410250535