Poor Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism on Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty

Kai Wang, Chang Gan, Lijun Chen and Mihai Voda
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Kai Wang: College of Tourism, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Chang Gan: College of Tourism, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Lijun Chen: College of Geography and Tourism, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang 438000, China
Mihai Voda: Faculty of Geography, Dimitrie Cantemir University, 540545 Targu Mures, Romania

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-18

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.

Keywords: poor residents’ perception; tourism on poverty alleviation; multidimensional poverty; sustainable tourism management; Fenghuang County (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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