Fundamental Theory And Evaluation System Of Regional Tourism Competitiveness

Since the 1980's the regional tourism competitive capability has been the hot topic inthe domestic and foreign tourism academia. However, the current theoretical research inthis area is not mature and more blanks and deficiencies in practical applications in ourcountry and Heilongjiang Province. The main target of the thesis is to apply regionalcompetition strategy theories to the development of regional tourism, on the one handthrough the combination of the modern regional competitive capability theory and theregional tourism theory. By establishing a new elementary theory and evaluation system ofregional tourism competitive capability, on the other hand, apply it to the patterndistribution and totality assessment of our country's regional tourism competitive capabilityand the research for the Heilongjiang province's regional tourism competitive capability.The purpose is to enhance and develop the basic theory of regional tourism disciplines, andto provide the background analysis and the theoretical basis for the promotion of nationaland Heilongjiang Province's regional tourism competitive capability.The thesis is divided into seven chapters:Chapter â…  is the introduction , primarily on the background of subjects and thedomestic and foreign research status and the theoretical and practical significance of thestudy of regional tourism competitive capability is pointed out. Then, by combining thecharacteristic of discipline the basic idea and framework of the thesis are presented.Chapter â…¡ studies the theoretical basis mainly for relevant theories on regionaltourism and regional tourism competitive capability. The regional tourism related theoriesincluding the basic concepts and characteristics of region and regional tourism as well asMarxism leisure view, scientific development concept, experience economic theory and soon are expounded first. The emphasis is placed on the regional tourism theory of the newstage and the practical significance for the promotion of regional tourism development.Secondly, the regional competitive capability theories including concept, the basicconnotation, the composition, the classification, the direct and indirect effect factors ofregional competitive capability and so on. This chapter provides the rationale of regionscience, tourism science and competitive capability for the study on regional tourismcompetitive capability in latter chapters.Chapter â…¢ is one of the emphasis of the thesis and mainly studies on the basictheories of regional tourism competitive capability. Firstly the definition, connotation andbasic characteristic of the regional tourism competitive capability systematically areelaborated. Secondly, the fundamental content of resource comparative superiority theory,the theory of comparative advantage, innovation theory and the theory of regional tourismsystem exploitation and its use in the regional tourism competition are analyzed. Thirdly theresearch on the regional tourism competitive capability theory system is conducted and theeffect factors of regional tourism competitive capability including the decisive factor, thesupporting factor and the ensuring factor are discussed. The dynamic mechanism ofpromotion of regional competitive capability is proposed and the theoretical basis for theconstruction of regional tourism competitive capability evaluation system in the latterchapters is attained.Chapter â…£ also is the key point of the thesis and it mainly discuss the regionaltourism competitive capability evaluation system. Firstly, the importance for constructingthe regional tourism competitive capability evaluation system and the advantages anddeficiencies in the current domestic and foreign evaluation system are pointed out and, thefundamental thought of the construction is proposed. Then, taking the above theories andanalytical results, a digitized regional tourism competitive capability evaluation systemsuitable for the condition of our country is established. The new system is characterized byfollowing tourism science and the basic principles of regional competitive capability andremarkable digital characteristics with reliable basic data, objective results and less of theartificial interferences.Chapter â…¤ is the positive part and is the application of the regional tourismcompetitive capability evaluation system established by chapter â…£ to evaluation of thenational tourism competitive capability. As the primary conclusion, the concrete pattern ofnational tourism competitive capability can be divided into five big groups and the fivegroups can be integrated to three levels. The intermediate level (fourth group) is the tourismeconomic developing area, including 21 provinces and cities and, the Heilongjiang provinceis just belong to this group. In the author's opinion, the promotion of the tourismcompetitive capability in the developing area should be the priority of the development ofthe tourism in the country. Therefore, systematical comparison of the tourism competitivecapability between the second level and the first level is conducted for finding the principalfactors affecting competitive capability and the basic strategy in the promotion of regionaltourism competitive capability in the developing areas.Chapter â…¥ is still positive study and it is the application of the regional tourismcompetitive capability evaluation system in chapter â…£ to the quantitive evaluation ofregional tourism competitive capability in the Heilongjiang province. By comparing theHeilongjiang province with the second level (fourth group), the national average level, thethird group and the Northeast area in China, the regional tourism competitive capabilitystatus, advantages, the major indicator disparity and the affecting factors in theHeilongjiang province are analyzed carefully and the strategy in promoting the level ofregional tourism competitive capability of Heilongjiang province is proposed.In Chapter â…¦ of the thesis, the main conclusions and in-depth study to be resolvedsubsequently are presented.