| Both the Outline of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development and the Outline of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for China West Development have endowed the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone a significant opportunity to speed up its development. And the Development Plan for Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone draws up a scientific development grand blueprint. The adjustment of the overall strategy for national economic development, especially the orientation for large-scale development of the western region and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) makes the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone heating up fast, and injects fresh energy to the regional tourism industry a striding development.From the perspective of "Border Effects", this paper discusses the limitation on regional tourism cooperation in Beibu Gulf Economic Zone and then puts forward the ways to its realization of such cooperation.Via examining the factors limiting the regional tourism cooperation and clarifing the border problems on the cross-border tourism cooperation in the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, the paper explores the possibility of breaking through borders by analyzing shielding effects, agency effects and agglomeration effects. The final aim of the paper is to seek an implement solution for the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone of a striding development in the regional tourism cooperation, so as to deal with the practical and possible problems in the reality.As for the research methods, this paper applies New Economic Geography, Measure Economics, Tourism Science, Management, and Systems Science etc. And the same time, the paper combines the theory with practice, data analysis with field research, and the qualitative analysis with the quantitative analysis.The basic features and originalities of the paper could be seen in the following aspects:(1)Regional tourism cooperation is not boundless; and cross-border tourism cooperation must base on full understanding of various limiting factors; (2)Border effects has three types:shielding effects, medium effects and agglomeration effects. They will transform to each other under certain conditions; (3)The function of border agglomeration will help to promote the competitiveness of tourism industry, propel the centralization of borderlands and foster new growth points;(4)The counter-measures of the Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation must be harmonious at multi-level drive; integrate variable tourism resources; leading enterprises set role models; develop with innovations; enterprises go out positively, rely on urban advantages; interact with other industries.This paper has 3 parts, including the introduction, the main contents of 5 parts and the conclusion.In the introduction, the author explains the background, the goal, and the significance of this research; reviews the advances on the research of regional tourism cooperation; and displays the fore-inputting methods and the procedure of the paper.In chapter 1 the author describes the relations between the regional tourism cooperation and border effects; provides the view that border exists extensively with the topical cases of EU, the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta. From the essence of border, the author discusses the formation of cooperation border and borderlands; analyzes politics border, economic border, and cultural border, and other border effects caused by their interaction, which influences the evolution of regional tourism space structure.Chapter 2 mainly discusses the causes of the Beibu Gulf tourism cooperation problems; summarizes the history and current situation, the progress and the hysteresis of the Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation. From three dimensions:the restriction of the regional policies; the dislocation of economic development; and the multi-variant division of ethnic minority cultures, this part explains different sizes and types of borders on tourism cooperation, and the formation of shielding effects.Chapter 3 presents the transition and breakthrough on Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation. Under the background of regional economic integration, this part discusses how to build a favorable politic and economic environment to realize the cross-border flow of tourism factors because of agency effects' cutting down the barrier. On the premise that agglomeration effect help expand borderlands, it explores the ways to make use of the Beibu Gulf unique location, accumulate variable tourism components, and link the value chains of tourism industry to construct the regional tourism center. The case study on the development of culture tourism of Jing nationality illustrates the possible renovation of regional tourism cooperation by overcoming multi borders, especially culture ones.Chapter 4 is the qualitative analysis of border effects for the Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation. Basing on Barro regression equation and chow test, the author builds a border effects analysis model, and uses the number of inbound tourists of Guangxi and Vietnam, Guangxi and Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan to evaluate the border effects of the Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation. Finally, the author checks the relative qualitative study and forecasts the future development of the Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation.Chapter 5 proposes countermeasures and suggestions for the Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation. As to the reality of Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation, the sustainable development needs farther aggrandizement:the construction of multi-level governance and the regional cooperation mechanism frame; the establishment of legislative guarantee and policy networks of cross-tourism cooperation; the joint of diversified strategies and key breakthrough.In the conclusion part of this paper, the author provides an overview of conclusions in the research, and believes that this research of the Beibu Gulf regional tourism cooperation serves only as a beginning but not an end. As a kind of applied study, the attention on the development of Beibu Gulf tourism is not a one-off act, but a constant process. Repeated practices and cognitions would always be needed to find new problems and corresponding solutions.
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