Martine BakkerUniversity of Amsterdam | UVA · Cultural Geography
Martine Bakker
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Martine Bakker researches the role of tourism in an inclusive growth strategy. From 2005 until 2013 she was an adjunct assistant professor at the Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism at New York University. Her research interests and practices focus primarily on issues associated with tourism and development. She is also a senior tourism consultant working with international development organizations and NGOs.
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January 2003 - March 2013
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Publications (19)
Inclusive growth and pro-poor growth are terms embraced but not fully understood in the tourism community. This paper discusses the main concepts of inclusive growth and their implication for tourism development across the developing world. Is inclusive growth simply another term for pro-poor in tourism? Discussion of current approaches utilized by...
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568316.2018.1541817
Continued discussions concerning the adverse effects of high levels of inequality require a better understanding of tourism’s contribution to inclusive growth. If tourism is to be supportive of inclusive growth, it must create productive employment opportunities, while...
Technology and digital platforms are disrupting the way the tourism sector operates from end to end affects low-income markets striving to leverage tourism for development impacts. Digital platforms, in particular, provide both opportunities and challenges for World Bank Group client countries looking to harness tourism to help achieve the World Ba...
The UNWTO was one of the first international level organizations to develop and use indicators as an instrument to monitor and measure sustainable tourism. Since 1993, the UNWTO has organized sustainable tourism pilot projects in different parts of the world where UNWTO consultants have worked together with national and local tourism managers to de...
Driven by the desire to deeply understand and experience the place they are visiting, tourists are
seeking more hands-on travel opportunities. Volunteer tourism, an emerging new trend, seeks to fulfil
this desire to visit, experience and give back. Tourists seeking to provide a volunteer service as part of
their holiday experience are part of a gro...
n September 2020, the Australian airline Qantas made international news headlines when it announced a special seven-hour flight over Australia departing and landing in Sydney. The flight on a Dreamliner 787 had 134 tickets for sale and they were sold out in 10 minutes. It promoted great views over the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and Sydney Harbour, a...
This paper aims to further advance the theoretical and practical understanding of tourism and inclusive growth by evaluating the Tourism-Driven Inclusive Growth Diagnostic (T-DIGD) framework in practice. This was done by defining a mixed-method methodology including identifying 96 indicators and applying the framework to the tourism sector of North...
Case study on UNESCO world heritage site in Curacao
