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Studying On Economic Performance Of China Regional Tourism Industry And Its Effecting Factors

Posted on:2011-09-04Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y LinFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119330338495784Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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Since the reform and opening in China, with the rapid development of social economy and the improvement of people's living standard, tourism economy in China has developed and expanded continually and economic benefits have increased steadily. The tourism industry has occupid an important position in our national economic system. But from the overall development of tourism industry in China, there exists several problems such as the low industrial concentration, the irrational industrial structure, the lack of standardization of market competition and the low of industry profit rate. Our current tourism policies are not able to solve these problems, and not enough to adapt to the needs of the development of tourism industry in China. Based on these conditions, this paper focused on the macro economy, regarded regional tourism industry in China as the research object, and researched on the characteristics of the development history of regional tourism industry in China and the existing problems, from its economic performance and related factors. Then this paper put forward the corresponding solutions and development countermeasures for future development of regional tourism industry, in order to provide useful references on theory and practice.Firstly, based on the summary of regional tourism industry's economic performance, this paper systematically analyze the regional tourism industry's economic performance according to the hierarchical framework of "nation–region - province" from the relevant theory of the economic effect and economic efficiency of tourism industry development. The research revealed three main features in regional tourism development. (1) The regional tourism industry in China developed generally well and time periodically. Meanwhile, the scale and the amount of the regional tourism industry in the eastern, central and western area presented gradient patterns. (2) The development of regional tourism industry significantly and directly promoted the third industry; and then promoted the entire national economy. (3) The degree of tourism centralization in easten area was higher than that in midwesten area and the national average. But that degree in eastern area was falling while that in midwesten area was rising. (4) Most regional tourism enterprises absolutely were increasing in economies of scale. Based on the further analysis on the results of resoluble Malmquist index of by the method DEA, this increasement was mainly from technological changes. The analysis results of absolute value in easten area was higher than that in midwesten area.Secondly, in order to explore the internal reasons for the aboving characteristics of regional tourism industry in China, from angle of the intrinsic reason of tourism development--, resource endowment and in combination with the actual situation of the development of tourism industry, this paper emphasized the change of the relative importance influence of the tourism resources endowment to tourism economic performance by the systematic comparison and regression and FGLS regression analysis methods. Historical analysis results showed that the effect of tourism resources endowment to economic performanc in China was totally descending on different degrees on the quality and quantity levels. The effect of labor endowment and fixed asset investment significantly increase, while the effect of situation of human capital sometimes rises and sometimes descends.Research results show that at present, the development of tourism industry in China was approximately in the transitional period from the first stage to the second and third stage which was described by Potter industrial competition theory. Advanced tourism resources endowment abounded in technology and knowledge will play more important roles in the development of tourism industry.Apart from the influence factors of resource endowment, the main factors affecting the level of tourism industry economic performance were the common factors from measurement of tourism industry itself and related aspects of the development of society. Based on economic performance of tourism industry which was subdivided into industrial economic performance and social economy performance, this paper further investigated the effect of these factors. Through comparative qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, it was found that the main factors that positively promoting economic performance of tourism industry and social economic performance were the expansion of the macroeconomic market, the perfection of marketization system, the improvement of basic establishment and the sevice level of social economy. On the contrary, the negative factor was open and reform; the neutral or more complex factor was human capital. The analysis results further confirmed that our tourism industry developmemt in general was on low level. It is necessary to improve its compentency relative external environmental factors in order to realize the continuous development.After research on the influence factors on regional tourism industry's economic performance, this paper quantitatively analyzed the influencing way and degree of related factors on regional tourism industry economic performance, under the interactive system environment by the methods of selected related variables and index structure equation model analysis. The main conclusions are the following. (1) The effect of the level of resource endowment on regional tourism industry economic performance was not obvious. That was to say, tourism industry economic performance did not only depend on one fact of the level of resource endowment. It was better to synthetically consider various factors. (2) The overall effect of location on tourism economic performance was the most obvious, whose action was even more than the effect of the tourism resources and services onf tourism economic performance. It reflected that the location was an influence factor that can not be neglected in regional tourism industry competitions.Finally, this paper put forward some regional tourism industry promotion strategy by synthesizingthe research results in above chapters. Firstly, the government should make clear its responsibilities to lead the development of regional tourism industry and promote the regional tourism cooperation. Secondly, it is feasible to promote the tourism consumption market development by expanding tourism economy scale, greatly developing market expand and optimizing tourism consumption structure. Again, it is necessary to improve tourism establishment. It is prerequisite to accelerate construction of regional transportation in tourist hardware resources and strengthen the scientific and technological content of tourism and cultivate tourist talents in software resources. Finally, it should be emphasized that the government should make great efforts to perfect relevant tourism management system, mainly perfecting the laws and regulations and reforming tourism management system.
Keywords/Search Tags:Regional tourism, Tourism industry, Economic performance, Influence factors, Resource endowment, The structural equation, Policy Suggestions
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