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Tourism, Development and Poverty Reduction in Guizhou and Yunnan*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2007

John A Donaldson
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Abstract

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 distributed and structured strikingly differently. In Yunnan, although tourism contributed to rapid economic growth, it did not reduce rural poverty as much as might be expected from a large rural-based industry. By contrast, Guizhou's relatively small-scale tourism industry, although not contributing significantly to growth, was distributed largely in poor areas and was structured to allow poor people to participate directly. The conclusions have implications for our understanding of provincial development strategy in China and ways that tourism can be used for development and poverty reduction.

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 190 , June 2007 , pp. 333 - 351
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2007

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* A large number of people contributed to this research, including Bruce J. Dickson, Phillip Stalley, Lee Ann Fujii, Stephanie McNulty, Madhu Chaubey, Marc Abramson, Rebecca Cors, Ethan Tong, Zhang Xuefeng, Jennifer Milewski, Jana Rumminger and the members of Asian Network for the Study of Local China. Any remaining errors are solely the author's. The author gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Office of Research, Singapore Management University.