Inaugural International Conference on Touris

Introduction

On Jan 27, 2015, Dr. Jarkko Saarinen, from the Finish University of Oulu, gave a public presentation on the topic: Tourism, Leisure and Poverty: Searching for Responsibility in Sustainability Tourism Development. He points out that even though tourism has been regarded as a method to alleviate poverty around the globe, the fact is host communities don’t necessarily benefit from the mainstream tourists, due to a series of reasons, such as the revenues dominated by a few companies and retention of poverty and underdevelopment as an attraction for international tourists.