Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Alleviation Nexus in the Brics Groupof Nations

Abstract

The tourism-poverty alleviation nexus is becoming an increasingly significant subject of academic inquiry within the tourism economics discourse. Using time series data from the World Bank (1995–2017) in a P-ARDL model, the present study explores the relationship between tourism (receipts from exports, the travel subsector, hospitality and accommodation subsector) and poverty alleviation (final household consumption) with tourism arrivals as the control variable within the context of the BRICS group. The results suggest that receipts from the travel subsector and exports met the a priori expectation – positively influencing poverty alleviation within BRICS nations in the long run. Contrastingly, receipts from the hospitality and accommodation subsector did not meet the a priori expectation of a positive sign, with the results indicating statistical insignificance in the long run. However, receipts from the hospitality and accommodation were found to only influence poverty alleviation in the short run. Relatedly, the results suggest that increases in consumption associated with growth in tourism arrivals did not influence poverty in the BRICS. The results point to the heterogeneity of the influence of tourism on poverty alleviation, whereby certain dimensions of tourism contribute to poverty alleviation in the long run and others do so in the short run. Based on these findings it is recommended that BRICS countries harness their tourism potential and promote intra-BRICS tourism to maximise the positive impact of travel and tourism export receipts on household consumption, which catalyses poverty alleviation.

The Impact of Income Inequality, Renewable Energy Consumption, Non-Renewable Energy Consumption and Per Capita Income on Poverty: Evidence from BRICS Economies

“…Headcount-based data for the poor (Omar and Inaba, 2020;Baloch et al, 2020;Kousar and Shabbir, 2021;Solarin, 2021;Ogbeide-Osaretin, 2021), income (Adekoya, 2018), infant mortality (Tsaurai, 2018;Magombeyi and Odhiambo, 2018;Khobai, 2021;Solarin, 2021), life expectancy (Magombeyi and Odhiambo, 2018;Tsaurai, 2018), multidimensional poverty index (Aziz et al, 2020;Osinubi and Olomola, 2020) and human development index (Nwani and Osuji, 2020) are used as proxy for poverty in some studies. Some other studies used per capita consumption expenditure as proxy for poverty due to the lack of data on poverty (Quartey, 2008;Odhiambo, 2009;Odhiambo, 2011;Nayasha, Gwenhure and Odhiambo, 2017;Sehrawat and Giri, 2018;Adeleye et al, 2020;Dada and Fanowopo, 2020;Garidzirai and Matiza, 2020). The consumption expenditures of the poor are generally more reliably reported and more stable than income (Ravallion, 1992;Datt and Ravallion, 1992;Quartey, 2008;Sehrawat and Giri, 2016;Sehrawat and Giri, 2018).…”

“…The consumption expenditures of the poor are generally more reliably reported and more stable than income (Ravallion, 1992;Datt and Ravallion, 1992;Quartey, 2008;Sehrawat and Giri, 2016;Sehrawat and Giri, 2018). Therefore, in this study, per capita consumption expenditures are used as a proxy variable for the poverty reduction variable, as in the studies of Nayasha, Gwenhure and Odhiambo (2017), Sehrawat and Giri (2018), Dada and Fanowopo (2020) and Garidzirai and Matiza (2020). Per capita consumption expenditure is measured in USD (current).…”

The impact of farm household tourism operations on poverty reduction and conservation under the control policies of China’s protected areas

“…2 Literature about pro-poor and conservation role of tourism 2.1 Study on the pro-poor role of tourism in protected areas protected areas tourism in alleviating community poverty (Ferraro and Hanauer, 2014;Ma and Wen, 2016;Garidzirai and Matiza, 2020). Some scholars have recognized the positive impact of tourism on poverty alleviation in the farm households surrounding protected areas (Duan et al, 2015;Wang, 2015;Thompson, 2022).…”