Pro-Poor Tourism

Tourism in the 3rd World is often fraught with difficulties.
Corrupt power structures reinforce the inequalities within many regions, with the poor having little or no possibility to improve their life situation.
The notion of tourism as a vehicle for raising the living standards of the poor, is well meaning, if a little naive and misguided.
I find it hard to imagine that those in power will relinquish their grip, especially if they are ceding power to those they currently oppress.
The pictures tell a thousand words....