Hendy Yuniarto

Indonesia
 

Lecturer of the Asia Institute of Beijing Foreign Studies University

 

Since 2013 China has implemented the TPA (Targeted Poverty Alleviation) strategy to ensure that the remaining rural poor move out of poverty by 2020. Through eight years of hard work, China achieved eliminating extreme poverty, a key goal for the new era of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Using various data sources, this paper described the success story of poverty alleviation and cultural preservation in Tibet through a high-quality development tourism industry. In numerous developing countries, tourism is considered an effective, responsive, and cost-efficient method to reduce poverty. Chinese tourism significantly and positively affects poverty reduction, reflecting the great value of executing pro-poor tourism programs. The stories about poverty alleviation through the tourism industry from Tibetian peoples can be an inspiration for international society, especially in many developing countries.