The Efficiency of Tourism Impact on People’s Livelihood: A Theoretical Framework

Abstract

The impact of tourism on people's livelihood has always been a concern of the government and academia. The effects of tourism on people's livelihood include: employment absorption, stimulating consumption, boosting the government, improving infrastructure and living quality of citizens. The paper believes that, looking at the tourism impact on people's livelihood and efficiency from the input-output perspective, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) network model can be adopted to carry out research on two evaluation framework with two intermediate variables. The theoretical framework proposed in this paper will be a quantitative analysis about the impact of tourism on people's livelihood.