Abstract
Tourism plays a crucial role in alleviating poverty deprivations and achieving sustainable development. Nevertheless, there is a lack of literature regarding evaluating poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. Taking Fenghuang County, China, as the study area, this study established an evaluation framework by using the Delphi method based on multidimensional poverty theory. Moreover, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was employed to identify the weight of each indicator and assess poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation. The results indicate that tourism economic development has been a momentous contributor to alleviating multidimensional poverty in study locations to a certain extent (3.180). However, there is still room for improvement and promotion. With respect to various dimensions, the mean of economic level is the highest (1.125), whilst the means of education training (0.420) and health care (0.819) are relatively lower than the other dimensions.
Highlights
Sustainable development (SD) is the common target of human society, and alleviating poverty is one of the most important goals of sustainable development [1]
This study develops a novel and systematic evaluation framework based on multidimensional poverty theory, which has the benefit of enriching the application scope of multidimensional poverty theory and deepening the research content regarding the effects of tourism on poverty alleviation
Poor residents’ livelihood condition has been promoted under the background of pro-poor tourism, increasing the life durable products (0.086) and optimizing the bathroom environment (0.066) perform miserably, which is due to the fact that the level of participation in tourism is shallow and they acquire slender wages, they cannot afford the expense to a certain extent
Summary
Sustainable development (SD) is the common target of human society, and alleviating poverty is one of the most important goals of sustainable development [1]. There is a pressing need to appraise poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. Developing the tourism industry is deemed as a vital strategy of alleviating poverty, the implementation of pro-poor tourism should take into account comprehensive impacts on poor residents, including economic level, livelihood conditions, education training and health care. There is a lack of literature on poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. This study evaluated poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation in six study locations in Fenghuang County, China.
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