An Economic Analysis of Tourism Contribution for Urban Poverty Reduction in Major Tourist Towns of North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Table 9
Rotated component matrix.
Rotated component matrix
Component
Communalities
1
2
3
Few officials working on poverty reduction have education or training in using tourism as a poverty reduction tool
0.771
0.617
The poor lack access to credit in helping them to participate in the tourism economy
0.679
0.522
Outdated regulations make it impossible to develop innovative products and services
0.624
0.484
0.640
The poor very often have limited access to tourism infrastructure and assets
0.575
0.474
0.556
Governments and communities lack essential market knowledge to develop pro-tourism strategies and products
0.709
0.503
Lack of necessary transportation and communication infrastructure essential to meeting the needs of the tourism industry
0.643
447
A lack of government programs targeting the tourism informal sector in urban areas
0.815
0.683
Very little recognition of the potential of tourism development by aid agencies
0.461
0.702
0.708
Governments and NGOs lack the organizational capacity to respond to the opportunities provided by tourism development
0.424
0.474
0.462
Eigenvalues
2.846
1.216
1.077
% of variance
22.768
17.534
16.789
Source: Field Survey, 2021. Extraction method: principal component analysis. Rotation method: varimax with Kaiser normalization. ARotation converged in 8 iterations.
