Experience of Tourism Poverty Alleviation in China Provides New Ideas for Thailand - Taking Danzhai County, Guizhou Province as a Case Study

Abstract

Many countries in the world are facing with various kind of poverty issues. Within this kind of situation, China has eliminated poverty issues comprehensively, and has completed poverty alleviation plans of The Sustainable Development Goals by The United Nations earlier ten years. We can claim that China can solve the poverty issues with unprecedented speed and scale which has been recognized globally. Thailand is the country which is full of curiosity and expectation about the wisdom and experience of China's poverty alleviation, especially in tourism poverty alleviation. Tourism Poverty Alleviation in China not only provides strong support for poverty alleviation, but also becomes an important support for rural revitalization. This paper aims at analyzing the development of rural tourism in China by taking the experience from Poverty Alleviation in Danzhai County, Guizhou Province as a case study by starting from the stage of China's poverty alleviation process, China's tourism poverty alleviation related policies, and China's rural tourism development to assist poverty alleviation models in order to put forward new experience and ideas for Thailand's poverty alleviation and to provides information for further studies in related fields.