Tourism, Development and Poverty Reduction in Guizhou and Yunnan

• Main Author: DONALDSON, John A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: poverty alleviation; tourism; poverty reduction; economic development; China; Yunnan; Guizhou; Asian Studies; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Tourism and Travel
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/145; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1144/viewcontent/cqu19003_PDF_copy.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How did the differing strategies adopted to develop tourism in Guizhou and Yunnan affect patterns of economic development and poverty reduction? The answer is paradoxical. Both provincial governments incorporated tourism as part of their overall development strategies, but their tourism sites were d...