The Theoretical Hypothesis And Empirical Test On Regional Tourism Cooperation

According to the background of economic globalization and regional economic integration, regional tourism cooperation have become one of big trends and a hot tourism problem in the world. It also become an important area that can be affected tourism develop orientation and competitiveness of every country in the world .In 2005, regional tourism cooperation have become a new climax in China, the cooperation's sphere becomes wider, cooperation is more active and the contents are all-including.On December of 2004, the five provinces of central China, including Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan , have signed a tourism cooperation agreement of "Chibi declaration", which declared that they will be cooperated to be constructed the central tourism integration, it symbolized the beginning of the six central provinces tourism cooperation. On March of 2006, the six central provinces, including Hubei, Hunan, Ahui, Jiangxi, Henan and Shanxi, assigned "the central China tourism cooperation frame agreement", it symbolized the cooperation of the six central provinces becoming into a actual period.This study, according to the above backgrounds, probes into the basic theoretical mechanism of regional tourism cooperation with the theories of economy, geography and management. It also analyses the motivation forces mechanism, develop period, regional tourism integration, cooperation modes, the coordination and protection mechanism of the tourism cooperation. The study is also taking the six central provinces as an example, analyses it in such aspects: the cases, tourism resources, motivation forces mechanism, conditions, potentiality and modes.The creation of the paper lies in redefinition these notions such as regional tourism, regional tourism cooperation, regional tourism cooperation integration, it also probes into the motivation forces mechanism, cooperation modes and the coordination and protection mechanism of the tourism cooperation, then it takes regional tourism cooperation theories into the six central provinces tourism cooperation practices.