A model for global collaboration on tourism microentrepreneurship
As has been aptly explained before, poverty and development policy are global phenomena, tourism retail channels and supply chains bridge the global North and the global South, and environmental degradation is caused by complex human, ecological and technological conditions. Accordingly, P1t scholarship transcends disciplinary silos and national borders, and in doing so, it strives to produce impactful research-based solutions for tourism’s persistent failure to engender equitable and sustainable development. This month, we are working in Johannesburg, engaging local students and colleagues from various disciplines in the University of Johannesburg in discussions about tourism and equitable development. We are inviting scrutiny of P1t scholarship and methodologies, and we are exploring first-hand new local manifestations of tourism microentrepreneurship. More, we are probing the connections between our P1t scholarship and possibly relevant theory and ideo