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This chapter highlights some of the welfare dimensions of tourism and suggests ways in which welfare can become a more important focus of tourism study, particularly through an emphasis on social responsibility. It looks at examples of welfare as applying to tourists, tourism destinations and tourism employees.

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This chapter evaluates the nature and role of pro-poor tourism in enhancing the welfare of residents and tourism workers in destination areas. The recent emergence of poverty-reduction development strategies are examined together with the growing role of tourism within them. It is concluded that although pro-poor tourism is flawed, it has the potential to be an important tool in assisting poverty reduction and the generation of more than just tourism development processes in poor destination areas.