Dr. Xinru Liu is Assistant Professor in the School of Economics and Management at Wuyi University, Guangdong, China. Her research interests include tourism and rural community development.Dr. Honggen Xiao is Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China. He researches into knowledge development, tourism and culture, leisure and society, and China Tourism.Both authors have distinct memories of poverty in less privileged areas and share a passion about rural community development through tourism in places where they are from and deeply care about.

• Chapter 1. PovertyChapter 2. Tourism and DevelopmentChapter 3. Poverty Alleviation through Tourism in ChinaChapter 4. Methodological ApproachesChapter 5. The Budding of TourismChapter 6. Spontaneous GrowthChapter 7. The Golden AgeChapter 8. A Stagnation of DevelopmentChapter 9. Tourism and Rural CommunityChapter 10. Imbalanced DevelopmentChapter 11. A Comparative LensChapter 12. The Shuiji Model