Enhancing tourism’s role in alleviating poverty: a bureaucratic approach to implementing SDG1 in China

Yang Zhang, Xiaoxiao Fu, Min Ye, Yaping Liao, Piao Wang and Huiming Zheng

Current Issues in Tourism, 2025, vol. 28, issue 21, 3401-3407

Abstract: By adopting bureaucratic concepts from political science, this study seeks to identify effective strategies within the tourism industry to enhance the implementation of SDG1 in China’s governmental policies. Through a critical discourse analysis of policy documents from two county governments in Western Hunan Province and semi-structured interviews with local cadres, the study proposes a unified dual policy implementation model. This model encompasses two key dimensions: ‘hard’ institutional mobilisation and ‘soft’ relational governance. Furthermore, the study offers insights into a potential pathway for developing countries engaged in tourism-based poverty alleviation, especially those grappling with the challenges of implementation capacity traps.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2024.2410931

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