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The problem of poverty remains important today and makes itself felt better or more with the economic crisis. In the work reports of international organizations, a number of policies are developed to reduce the poverty problem in the national development plans and policies of the countries and steps are taken to identify the tools as a result of the policies developed. In the last 20 years, studies have been carried out on the fact that pro-poor tourism approach model can be effective and important in reducing poverty problem in academic studies. The main purpose of the research is to determine the link between development, rural development and pro-poor tourism approach model. The research consists of 4 sections. In the first chapter, the concepts of development and rural development are tried to be explained. In the second part, poverty types and their relationship with tourism are discussed. In the third chapter, the tourism potentials of Bingol and Elazıg provinces, which constitute the universe of the research, were tried to be revealed. In the fourth section, as a result of the survey method applied in the provinces of Bingol and Elazıg, there is a relationship between pro-poor tourism approach and rural development, and as a result of the evaluation of the existing tourism potentials, the regional development can be realized with the tourism sector. |