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Tourism poverty alleviation is the potential and driving force for tourism employment. It is one of the forecast targets 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 the poverty alleviation activities. The results show that 51.9% of the respondents are willing to participate in tourism poverty alleviation work. Among the Kazakh women to participate in tourism poverty alleviation affecting factors, the positive factors of their employment intention are Chinese level, ethnic food making skills, tourist souvenir making skills, government’s attention to tourism poverty alleviation, etc. Age, tourism poverty alleviation accuracy, tourism poverty alleviation employment environment, the distance between residence and scenic spot, the number of family children, per capita grassland area showed negative effects. Education years, Halal diet care degree, singing and dancing skills, per capita cultivated land area, etc. did not pass the significant test.
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Chu, Y., Wang, S., Yang, Y., Ding, T. (2022). Minority Women’s Willingness to Participate in Tourism Poverty Alleviation—A Case Study. In: Luo, Y., Zhang, H., Jiang, J., Bi, D., Chu, Y. (eds) Tourism, Aviation and Hospitality Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1661-8_8
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