The Influence of the Dual Structure of Tourism Industry on the Effect of Tourism-based Poverty Elimination Measures
The chief goal of tourism-based poverty elimination is to eliminate poverty.However,tourism development aiming at poverty elimination in some depressed areas has not exerted effect adequately,failing in promoting the development of the poor,which goes against the goal of tourism development.This paper analyzes this problem from the perspective of dual structure of tourism industry,pointing out that the main cause of this problem is that the formal sector of tourism industry has not operated on poverty elimination fully,and bring"effect squeeze" for the informal sector of tourism industry because of the conflict between the opennessof tourism industry and the poverty of the background of tourism development in depressed areas.In addition,this paper points out the measures of avoiding"effect squeeze"on the basis of analysis of the causes of"effect squeeze".