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Tourism is a leading industry which helps for world economic growth, and poverty reduction is a key factor in many countries in the world. By adopting different tourism strategies, we can reduce poverty and people may get benefits for that.

Barriers to Tourism Related Reduction

There are a significant number of barriers to effectively using tourism development as a tool for poverty reduction

• A lack of government programs targeted at the informal tourism sector, which plays an essential role in providing tourism services and has the significant potential of helping to reduce poverty, especially in urban areas.
•   Within the Asian context, there is very little recognition of the potential of tourism development by aid agencies. One of the challenges is to work with these agencies to demonstrate the essential role that tourism can play in Page 7 helping to address key development issues such as poverty, gender, trafficking of women, infrastructure and the provision of health services. 
• Few if any tourism and poverty officials have any education or training in using tourism as a poverty reduction tool.
•   As in many instances, the poor lack access to credit which is essential in helping them to participate in the tourism economy. 
•  Governments, as well as non-governmental organizations, lack the organizational capacity to respond to the opportunities provided by tourism development. 

We have to focus on the economic effects of tourism on destinations. A wide range of economic effects are examined: direct and indirect; financial and nonfinancial; static and dynamic. While recognizing that the non-economic impacts of tourism can be important to those living in destinations, the rationale for this focus on economic effects is threefold. Tourism is not only a poverty reduction method but also a diverse and labour-intensive industry.