在我国全面脱贫、推动乡村振兴与共同富裕的大背景下,贫困陷阱的内涵已从传统的绝对贫困演变为相对贫困、区域发展不平衡以及公共服务供给不均衡等新的形式,成为巩固脱贫攻坚成果与实现共同富裕的重要障碍。深入探讨乡村旅游对贫困陷阱的作用机制,对于乡村旅游产业的管理与适应性调控具有重要的理论和现实意义。本文采用DEA模型,以大别山区具代表性的县域为例,选取乡村旅游的热度、投入、创收作为投入变量,经济贫困、教育贫困、健康贫困作为产出变量,进行乡村旅游在减贫与共富方面的效率实证分析。研究发现,部分地区存在规模效率下降的问题,亟需优化资源配置和提升管理水平。建议合理控制乡村旅游设施的建设投入,着力提升管理与运营能力,推动精准化与智能化发展。通过数据驱动的资源配置与动态管理模式,集中资源打造高质量的旅游体验,并以灵活的管理策略应对市场变化,确保资源利用的最优化与效益最大化。此外,通过对维持高效率县域的具体举措进行分析,总结并提炼出乡村旅游作用于贫困陷阱、实现减贫与共富效果的具体路径。Against the backdrop of comprehensive poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, and common prosperity in China, the connotation of poverty trap has evolved from traditional absolute poverty to new forms such as relative poverty, regional development imbalance, and uneven supply of public services, becoming an important obstacle to consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and achieving common prosperity. Exploring the mechanism of rural tourism’s impact on poverty traps is of great theoretical and practical significance for the management and adaptive regulation of the rural tourism industry. Using the DEA model, taking representative counties in the Dabie Mountains as an example, this study selects the popularity, investment, and income generation o