The Measurement and Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Tourism Poverty Alleviation Efficiency in the Liupan Mountain Area of Gansu Province, China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Thanks for giving the opportunity to review the paper titled as The measurement and temporal and spatial evolution of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency in Liupan Mountain Area of Gansu Province, China. This paper is timely, well developed, cunducted and well written. Thus, it addressed a significant topic likely to be of interest to tourism poverty management. I have only some minor revising suggestions as the following:
First, it need strengthen the issues of tourism poverty in China, and intensify the significance of tourism poverty alleviation.
Second, the contribution of the paper and the discussion of the contribution should be mad more clearly.
Third, it can cite some destination social responsibility references to consolidate the theoretical foundation of tourism poverity, such as:
"Influences of destination social responsibility on the relationship quality with residents and destination economic performance" Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 2017
"From recreation to responsibility: Increasing environmentally responsible behavior in tourism" Journal of Business Research, 2020
"The effect of destination social responsibility on tourist environmentally responsible behavior: Compared analysis of first-time and repeat tourists" Tourism Management, 2017
"A scale to measure residents perceptions of destination social responsibility" Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020
Based above comments, this paper is a high quality original empirical article. Thus, I recommend authors to revise the paper according to reviewers' suggestions.
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
Thank you very much for your comments on our manuscript titled ‘The measurement and temporal and spatial evolution of tour-ism poverty alleviation efficiency in Liupan Mountain Area of Gansu Province, China’ (sustainability-1437119). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have carefully addressed all the comments in the revised manuscript. Additionally, we provided a point-by-point explanation of all revisions and noted them in red in this paper. Following the comments, many minor editorial changes were carried out throughout the manuscript to improve the English, flow, and presentation. The changes are too many to list here. We are uploading a track-changed version of the manuscript.
We hope our responses could meet your requirements and grant resubmission. Should you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me or the co-authors.
Sincerely,
Meizhen Wang and co-authors
Response to Reviewer 1 Comments
Point 1: First, it need strengthen the issues of tourism poverty in China, and intensify the significance of tourism poverty alleviation.
Response 1: Thanks for your positive feedbacks the thoughtful comment. In order to make the logic of the article clearer and the content more complete, we have supplemented the problem of poverty alleviation by tourism in China and emphasized the significance of poverty alleviation by tourism in the revised manuscript (line 41-60，line 87-92) according to your suggestion.
Point 2: Second, the contribution of the paper and the discussion of the contribution should be mad more clearly.
Response 1: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. We added the contribution of the paper and described it in more detail in the newly submitted manuscript based on your comments (line 539-565).
Point 3: Third, it can cite some destination social responsibility references to consolidate the theoretical foundation of tourism poverity.
Response 1: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. According to your suggestion, we have added reference materials on destination social responsibility in the revised manuscript to consolidate the theoretical basis of tourism poverty (line 67-69, line 661-668).
Reviewer 2 Report
Useful scientific article presenting methodology and its application for measurement and temporal and spatial evolution of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency in a specific destination.
Well-argued author's multidimensional poverty-based evaluation index system of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency.
Adequate to the methodology evaluation indicators system of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency in accordance with the available data for the studied destination - Liupan Mountain Area in Gansu Province.
By applying appropriate methods, the authors present concrete results on the tourism poverty alleviation efficiency in Liupan Mountain Area in Gansu Province as follows: calculated value of the tourism poverty alleviation efficiency of each district and county; analyzed temporal evolution of the regional tourism poverty alleviation efficiency, visualized space of the value of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency, explored spatial distribution of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency, explored spatial distribution correlation.
Recommendations:
It is recommended to present a table with the specific data for Input and Output Indicators for the study period, specified in the Evaluation indicators system of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency in Liupan Mountain Area in Gansu Province (Table 2)
The legends in the attached maps are not readable and their visualization should be improved.
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
Thank you very much for your comments on our manuscript titled ‘The measurement and temporal and spatial evolution of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency in Liupan Mountain Area of Gansu Province, China’ (sustainability-1437119). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have carefully addressed all the comments in the revised manuscript. Additionally, we provided a point-by-point explanation of all revisions and noted them in red in this paper. Following the comments, many minor editorial changes were carried out throughout the manuscript to improve the English, flow, and presentation. The changes are too many to list here. We are uploading a track-changed version of the manuscript.
We hope our responses could meet your requirements and grant resubmission. Should you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me or the co-authors.
Point 1: It is recommended to present a table with the specific data for Input and Output Indicators for the study period, specified in the Evaluation indicators system of tourism poverty alleviation efficiency in Liupan Mountain Area in Gansu Province (Table 2)
Response 1: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. As the evaluation system involves the data of 40 districts and counties for ten years, with a large amount of data, we have attached it as an appendix.
Point 2: The legends in the attached maps are not readable and their visualization should be improved.
Response 2: Thanks for your constructive suggestion. I'm sorry that when we submitted the first draft, we adopted the screenshot instead of the original one because of the beauty of typesetting. We have adjusted all the figures in this article according to your suggestions to improve their visualization.
Sincerely,
Meizhen Wang and co-authors
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Reviewer 3 Report
This work is well-organised and well-structured, yet, the authors should check the spelling and grammar.
The topic is interesting and very important. It would be great if the authors mentioned sustainable development goals to emphasise the importance of the study.
The authors noted that in the process of tourism poverty reduction, many problems will be encountered, however, gave only one example. Can you provide some more examples on the possible problems?
If it is applicable, can the authors provide some examples on how tourism development alleviated poverty in the discussed area?
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
Thank you very much for your comments on our manuscript titled ‘The measurement and temporal and spatial evolution of tour-ism poverty alleviation efficiency in Liupan Mountain Area of Gansu Province, China’ (sustainability-1437119). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have carefully addressed all the comments in the revised manuscript. Additionally, we provided a point-by-point explanation of all revisions and noted them in red in this paper. Following the comments, many minor editorial changes were carried out throughout the manuscript to improve the English, flow, and presentation. The changes are too many to list here. We are uploading a track-changed version of the manuscript.
We hope our responses could meet your requirements and grant resubmission. Should you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me or the co-authors.
Sincerely，
Meizhen Wang and co-authors
Response to Reviewer 3 Comments
Point 1: The topic is interesting and very important. It would be great if the authors mentioned sustainable development goals to emphasise the importance of the study.
Response 1: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. We have added the sustainable development goals in the revised manuscript based on your comments to emphasize the importance of this paper (line73-76).
Point 2: The authors noted that in the process of tourism poverty reduction, many problems will be encountered, however, gave only one example. Can you provide some more examples on the possible problems?
Response 2: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. We have revised and supplemented the relevant contents according to your opinions (line 39-41, line 54-60).
Point 3: If it is applicable, can the authors provide some examples on how tourism development alleviated poverty in the discussed area?
Response 3: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. We have added relevant content based on your suggestions. We take Kongtong District of Pingliang City as an example to illustrate the poverty reduction effect of tourism in terms of solving employment and increasing income. The specific content has been added in the revised manuscript (line 139-144).
