| Qingjiang River has beautiful landscape and pleasant climate, the unique historical and cultural value. It is one of the regions which hold the richest tourism resources in Hubei Province and even in central China. In the later 1980s, tourism industry in Qingjiang River progressed with the development of the Three Gorges'tourism development. Because of its special geographical location and natural environment, tourism was developing slowly, the results is not obvious although Pro-poor tourism has put forward for many years. Accessibility is the greatest factor which hinders the development of the socio-economic and tourism in Qingjiang River. In 2008, the government of Hubei province proposed to construct the "Eco-cultural Tourism Circle in Western Hubei ", and further attention has been paid in the tourism of western Hubei. Among the whole tourism development's situation of western Hubei, the section of Qingjiang Tujia-Miao Folk Ecology tourism together with the "One River and Two Mountains" eco-cultural tourism and the Jing-Jing-Xiang-Sui cultural tourism, were been classified as the three major tourism plates in the whole circle. In 2009, Western Hubei Eco-Cultural Tourism Circle Investment Co., Ltd. was established in Hubei province, specializing in the investment and construction related to tourism development in western Hubei. Qingjiang River is also within the scope of the key investment. In January 2010, the Hubei line of Shanghai-Chengdu Expressway is open to traffic basically; Yichang-Wanzhou Railway also will be completed, which will break the history of without railway in the region of western Hubei. The accessibility of Qingjiang River will get a qualitative upgrading finally. Therefore, the tourism of Qingjiang River is welcoming the new development opportunities. But because of long backwater, the development level of socio-economic and tourism are not high in Qingjiang region. Through an on-the-spot investigation, we found that there has larger gap of tourism development between the counties in Qingjiang region because of varying degree with tourism resources, location, concepts, economic development level, etc. In recent years, some scenic spots in this region have achieved good market response after the strong building and overseas promotions. However, the overall development level of tourism in this region is still low and doesn't have a significant pro-poor effect. Through developing tourism to produce a sustainable pro-poor effect in the whole region is not an easy task.The study was carried out under such a background. The study area, Qingjiang River is a specific concept, which flows through Lichuan in Enshi, Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Hubei Province, Enshi, Xuan'en, Jianshi, Badong and Wufeng, Changyang, Yidu and other cities and counties of Yichang City. It empties into the Yangtze in Yidu. Therefore, the scope of study concentrated in the Western Hubei, across the state of Enshi and Yichang City, which belongs to the large-scale study of the pro-poor tourism. This study aimed to develop the Qingjiang River from finding out the conditions of sustainable pro-poor development of tourism constraints factors in drawing up effective measures to formulate a set of local conditions with the characteristics of sustainabl pro-poor tourism development strategy and evaluation system of Qingjiang River for the regional pro-poor development brainstorming. In this paper, from a theoretical point of view, on the basis of the analysis of domestic and pro-poor tourism research, in the sum of domestic pro-poor tourism development of practice and theoretical study on the problems and development trends, proposed the concept of sustainable pro-poor tourism development. Meanwhile, we undertaken a situation analysis on the Qingjiang River tourism development and assessed the pro-poor tourism effects of the key areas of the basin. On this basis, we proposed the sustainable pro-poor tourism development model of "Government Control, Propel in Advance" and the set of motive System, executive System, decision System and support System (MEDS). For the strategy established the pro-poor tourism decision support system (PPTDSS) of Qingjiang River, constructed two sets of indicators of Qingjiang selection of priority development projects and sustainable pro-poor tourism development capability evaluation system, and conducted an empirical analysis respectively. As reflected in the final evaluation findings for the issues to the region as a case for small-scale sustainable pro-poor tourism development of specific countermeasures.There are eight chapters altogether as follows:The research background, research status quo, research tought and whole-length structure, research methods and innovative points are introduced in chapterâ… .Then we analyzed the two basic concepts of pro-poor tourism in chaperâ…¡, which were tourism planning and tourism system. And we also discussed the relevant theoretical basis of pro-poor tourism:location development theory, growth pole theory, competence theory, tourist sites life cycle theory, theory of the multiplier effect of tourism, stakeholder theory and game theory, sustainable development theory and so on. The concept of Sustainable Pro-Poor Tourism Development was defined: under the premise of maintaining the quality of natural resources and the provision of services while taking the economic benefits of tourism development as the central, through rational planning and development of tourism resources to achieve the objectives of economic benefits increase of tourism destination, beautification of natural landscape and human environment, and sound ancillary facilities thus boosting the local socio-economic development and help the poor people in the region out of poverty or poverty reduction. Sustainable Pro-Poor Tourism development is a weak point of view of sustainable development which is more inclined to the views of economics in the field of sustainable development, so it is more focusd on sustainable economic benefits.On the basis of the analysis of the theory backgroud described previously, we moved to the main section of our research.Firstly, we demonstrated that the limit factors of sustainable pro-poor tourism development in Qingjiang River were not only the history problems but also included low economical developing level, insufficient tourism investment and irregular investment management by using data summary and quantitative methods to analysis the present situation of social economy and tourism development of the region. Due to these factors, tourism system was failed to form and it possessed a low compatibility with tourism industry in Qingjiang River. As a tuorism destination, the significant scenic spots and steady tourism market were lacked, therefor the efficiency of pro-poor tourism was not significant.In addition, on the basis of analysing current situation and problems of the region, from the view of weak sustainlable development, we have proposed a sustainable developement model of pro-poor tourism namely "Government Control, Propel in Advance". We have constructed a multi-demensional pro-poor tourism strategy which combined Motive System, Executive System, Decision System and Support System together. This strategy is based on the provincial government's leading role, developed by a complex system of stakeholders of pro-poor tourism, and integrating advantage resources of multiple departments. Following the idea of developing in advance through rational planning, we have to focus on selecting and developing pro-poor projects for strategic planning, seek all the ways and methods of pro-poor tourism, and then establish the selection system for key pro-poor projects in order to get a unique and multi-dimensional pro-poor strategy which can be implemented in the whole vally, and be combined by Motive System, Executive System, Decision System and Support System. That is MEDS for short. The motive model of sustainable Pro-poor tourism of Qingjiang River was created in view of motive system. The sustainable Pro-poor tourism development arrangement was set in view of executive system, and a database with high quality projects was meticulously made. In view of support system, the main content of policy support, capital arrangement, management optimization and technology advance were included in quarters. The Pro-poor tourism decision support system (PPTDSS) was introduced in view of decision system. Laid out the important content of data base, model base, arithmetic base and knowledge base, made a whole PPTDSS technology structure of Qingjiang River. By means of setting up an evaluation index system about development potentiality of tourist spots, the priority selection PPTDSS of Qingjiang River was established. Then the decision matrix was gotten and the standard feature vector of the matrix was calculated. Ultimately the power of the sum index was obtained to decide the development priority of the tourist spots.After established detailed sustainable pro-poor development pattern and strategy of Qingjiang River, another evaluation mechanism was needed to chech the pro-poor tourism development to be efficient or not. So, we evaluated the sustainable ability of the four counties in the pro-poor tourism development strategy. The evaluation contents of the sustainable development ability of Qingjiang River were firstly elaborated, including the tourism competition, tourism sustainable development, environment protecting, economy developing and so on. Secondly, based on all these, the evaluation system of sustainable pro-poor tourism development ability of Qingjiang River was built. There were 3 layers,5 subsystem and 25 index factors, especially some evaluation indexes with the features of Qingjiang were also included. Centered on the basic point of the paper, which was that pro-poor tourism development is a kind of weak sustainable development and sustainable economy development, different kinds of economy evaluation indexes concerned with tourism and pro-poor development were designed. Thirdly, evaluation model of comprehensive index was developed using weighting method obtaining standard deviation coefficient algorithm and analytic hierarchy process for different structer. Nonliner model was introducted to increase accuracy agginst traditional algorithm. Five kinds of exponential formulas for single evaluation index were created through indicators parameters optimization by fitting the Logistic curve and a set of universal development exponential formulas were finally proposed. Then we took the four pro-poor growth poles as examples to do an empirical analysis, and found that the evaluation index and the caculation model were accurate for us to seek a lot of deep-seated problems from representation. It was sharp and pratical, besides, the universal development exponential formulas were not only applicable for the case in this study but also suitable for other cases which had increased indexs; they were universal without index numbers limit. They can be operated in PPTDSS to evaluate the capacity of sustainable pro-poor tourism development.From the result of evaluation, we found that there were some differences between two kinds of conclusions. In connection with the problems which were reflected from the evaluation, we took Changyang country as an example to demonstrate specific measures of sustainable pro-poor tourism development. The practical mode of "Government Control, Propel in Advance" was discussed and the advanced developing way for tourism resources integration was proposed, too. Finally, we predicted the economic benefit of pro-poor tourism in Changyang country.On the base of summing up context and opinion for the paper, chapterâ…¦carries out future research prospects.
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