An institutional analysis of local strategies for enhancing pro-poor tourism outcomes in Cuzco, Peru
研究了秘鲁圣谷两个旅游协会如何通过地方策略改变制度限制来改善穷人生活，并评估这些策略对个人和集体能力的影响。
Pro-poor tourism studies often highlight the need for altering institutional restraints and creating policies that enhance freedoms for the poor. However, few studies have evaluated local-level strategies by which the poor seek to alter such restraints to improve their lives within evolving tourism arrangements. This study applies Jessop's strategic-relational approach to analyze the cases of two tourism associations in Peru's Valle Sagrado (Sacred Valley), qualitatively assessing local-level strategies for addressing specific institutional concerns. Sen's capability approach is subsequently applied to assess the potential for these strategies to improve individual and collective functioning for associations and their members. Findings draw attention to a kind of institutional poverty alleviation that may occur when identifiable institutional limitations are strategically altered by local people, contributing to enhanced functioning. This study suggests that pro-poor tourism studies may benefit from considering poverty alleviation as both an opportunity-dependent and an opportunity-generating process, stressing the interplay between structure and agency as local people maneuver to improve their lives through small-scale institutional change.