Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1143
A Study on Minority Women 's Willingness to Participate in Tourism Poverty Alleviation and Its Influencing Factors A Case Study of Kazak in Xinyuan County
Abstract
Tourism poverty alleviation is the attitude and driving force of potential tourism employment behavior, and also the forecast target of employment behavior. This paper investigates the willingness of 660 Kazak women in 33 rural areas of Xinyuan County to participate in tourism poverty alleviation. The Probit model is used to study the influencing factors of Kazakh women's willingness to participate in poverty alleviation. The results show that 51.9% of the respondents showed the willingness to participate in tourism poverty alleviation work. Among all influencing factors affecting Kazakh women’s willingness to participate in tourism poverty alleviation, the positive factors of Kazakh women' s employment intention include the Chinese level, ethnic food making skills, tourist souvenir making skills, government's attention to tourism poverty alleviation, economic income supporting the participation in tourism poverty alleviation, family support for working out, and parents' health level; age, tourism poverty alleviation accuracy, tourism poverty alleviation employment environment, distance between the residence and the scenic spot, the number children in the family, per capita grassland area showed negative effects; education years, halal diet care degree, singing and dancing skills, per capita cultivated land area did not pass the significant test.
Keywords
Kazakh women; willingness to participate in tourism poverty alleviation; influencing factors