| The rapid rise of the tourism industry has brought new power for the development of economy, and its powerful leading role has taken affected in promoting the development of related industries, so all provinces put a lot of attention on it. As the investment becomes more and more, the competition among tourism industry also becomes more intense, so it is very important to win the competition for each province. After searching the related literature, there are many researches about tourism, and many scholars have discussed the factors of competitiveness of tourism industry, and they also make many positive comments and suggestions for enhancing the competitiveness of tourism industry. But in the meaning time, research in Henan Province is still only a few, therefore, this paper will take research on the tourism industry of Henan Province, and select the Yellow River comprehensive economic zone as study area, build a model to analysis of advantages and disadvantages of Henan Province's tourism industry, finally give suggestions on enhancing competitiveness of Henan Province's tourism industry.This paper is divided into six parts:The first part is the introduction. It is mainly to describe the background, the research ideas and methods.The second part is the literature review, this part is to summery the domestic and the foreign studies about tourism industry, and lists the competitiveness of research of the tourism industry in Henan Province, refers the views of other scholars, combines with the author's own views, this paper establishes a model for discussing the competitiveness of tourism industry in Henan Province.The third part is the theoretical basis, this part details the basic theory of competitiveness of tourism industry–the comparative advantage theory and the competitive advantage theory, and discusses the differences and connections between the two theories, provides theoretical support for building the model.The fourth part is the model-building and the choice of evaluation index system, based on the diamond model and the two dimensional analysis model , under the actual situation of the tourism industry in Henan Province, this paper establishes a quantitative evaluation model and the evaluation index system; then introduces the causes of selecting principal component analysis and panel data analysis, and introduces the basic idea of the two analysis methods.The fifth part is the analysis of competitiveness of the tourism industry in Henan Province. Firstly, using the principal component analysis on the four provinces'competitiveness of the tourism industry in 2008; secondly, using the panel data analysis on four provinces'competitiveness of the tourism industry during 2005-2008 to conduct a longitudinal analysis; finally analyzes the rank change and the five indicators change of Henan Province's tourism industry, and summarizes the linkages between the two sides.The sixth part gives suggestions on enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism industry in Henan Province, this part bases on Chapter five, gives the suggests for the advantages and disadvantages of tourism industry in Henan Province. |