Tibet, China Net News As the only provincial-level concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken area in China, Xizang Autonomous Region is facing difficulties and challenges in the process of getting rid of poverty and weak foundation, but at the same time it also has the advantages of rich and unique natural and human landscapes and other tourism resources. In recent years, the autonomous region has attached great importance to poverty alleviation through tourism, and has continuously increased its efforts to support poverty alleviation through strengthening policies, promoting investment growth, and innovating financial products. Taking the "tourist road" and eating "tourist meals" has become an important choice for more and more farmers and herdsmen in Xizang to get rid of poverty and become rich.
The surrounding area of Duodi Township, Chengguan District, Lhasa City was once the site of Tibetan medicine for Dunyue Dunzhu, one of the eight Tibetan operas. In recent years, with the help of convenient transportation and rich tourism resources, Duodi Township has actively built the brand of "Lhasa Family" and promoted the development of rural tourism. The team of Lhasa Tourism Bureau in Weiba Village helped the village to build a "wipe" cultural exhibition hall, a tourism and leisure park and other projects, and there were more than 10 "Lhasa people" in the village. The Deji family in Weiba Village, Didi Township received more than 800 tourists in 2017, with an increase of 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. "Rural tourism has become an important way for villagers to get rid of poverty and become rich." Nima, a poverty alleviation specialist in Weiba Village, said. Rural tourism is on fire, and the villagers’ days are even more prosperous. It is understood that in the next five years, Lhasa will invest 120 million yuan to build 300 tourist homestays throughout the city, thus promoting the upgrading of tourism in Lhasa and promoting the poor people to get rid of poverty through tourism.
Luobu Village, Bayi District, Linzhi City, Xizang, is located in the core area of Lulang International Tourism Town, which is known as "Oriental Switzerland". Relying on high-quality eco-tourism resources, villagers have gradually changed from relying entirely on agriculture and animal husbandry to tourism and tertiary industry. Of the 59 households in the village, 51 have opened family hotels, and their business is booming. The annual hotel income of the villager Bianba is 120,000 yuan, but he still insists on participating in the ecological protection tour for more than ten days every month. "The ecology here is our rice bowl. Without such a good ecology, there will be no tourism income. We can’t smash the rice bowl." Bianba said.
The picture shows the site of Guge dynasty in Ali area.
Known as the "roof of the world", Ali area is located in the westernmost part of Xizang, near the border, with an average elevation of more than 4,500 meters. It has many famous tourist attractions such as Mabian Yongcuo Shenhu, Gangrenboqi Shenshan, Zada Tulin and Guge Dynasty ruins. In 2017, Ali received more than 660,000 tourists from home and abroad, achieving a tourism income of 750 million yuan, up 20% and 10% respectively. According to statistics, there are about 12,000 farmers and herdsmen who directly or indirectly participate in tourism in Ali, earning 153 million yuan, which has improved the tourist reception and service capacity of 11 poor villages with tourism development conditions.
In January 2018, the National Tourism Administration and the the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office jointly issued the Action Plan on Supporting Poverty Alleviation through Tourism in Deep Poverty Areas (hereinafter referred to as the Plan), which increased support for deep poverty areas from six aspects: tackling key problems in tourism poverty alleviation planning, upgrading tourism infrastructure, developing excellent tourism poverty alleviation products, promoting tourism poverty alleviation, training tourism poverty alleviation talents and establishing tourism poverty alleviation demonstration. Relevant experts and people in the industry said that the promulgation of the "Program" means that China’s tourism poverty alleviation work has entered a new stage.
According to the Xizang Autonomous Region Tourism Development Committee, the National Tourism Administration and the the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office recently jointly released ten boutique tourist routes of China’s "Westbound" go on road trip, including the 318 Sichuan-Tibet Line, the Qinghai-Tibet Line, the Yunnan-Tibet Line and the Xizang Shannan Yumai Line. This will bring considerable tourism income to the areas along the line and benefit more farmers and herdsmen.
On February 2nd, the working conference on poverty alleviation held in Xizang Autonomous Region proposed to actively develop rural tourism in deep poverty-stricken areas, and to attract capable mainland people to participate in and drive more people to eat "tourist meals". In the exploration of getting rid of poverty, relying on ecological advantages, Xizang Autonomous Region has continuously promoted tourism to get rid of poverty accurately, created a number of characteristic folk villages and rural tourism model villages, and embarked on a path in which ecological benefits and economic and social benefits complement each other. It is understood that by 2020, the autonomous region will comprehensively enhance the tourism development capacity of 1,057 poverty-stricken villages with tourism development conditions, and the poverty-stricken population with the establishment of the file card will directly engage in tourism services for more than 60,000 people and indirectly engage in tourism services for more than 170,000 people, achieving 120,000 poverty-stricken people with the establishment of the file card. This is also the true portrayal of the slogan "Beautiful China Global Tourism Year" — — "New era, new tourism, new acquisition". (Tibet, China Net Comprehensive/Wu Jianying)