Assisting the poor in China through tourism development A review of research 旅游扶贫研究综述.pdf

Tourism Management 33 (2012) 239e248 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Tourism Management journal homepage: www.els /locate/tourman Progress in tourism management Assisting the poor in China through tourism development: A review of research Benxiang Zenga, *, Chris Ryanb a Charles Darwin University, PO Box 795, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia b The University of Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The role of Pro-Poor Tourism has been increasingly studied in China since the 1990s. The research has Received 1 March 2011 addressed a broad range of key issues such as the implication of “fu pin lv you ” (or TAP to use an English Accepted 4 August 2011 acronym arising from the translation ‘Tourism-Assisting the Poor’), governmental roles, local participa- tion and the contribution of rural, natural and cultural resources to TAP. However, there has been a lack of Keywords: research in some areas such as in the micro-economics of TAP targeting local poor people, quantitative China research, case studies and anthropological analysis. This paper reviews Chinese academic literature on Literature review pro-poor tourism to provide a clearer picture of current practice and progress in TAP policies and Pro-poor tourism research in China. Poor people Pov