A Study On Tourism Cooperation And Development Of Guangxi In Greater Mekong Subregion

With the expansion of globalization, the global economy develops towards the trends of regionalization. And with the trend of regional economical cooperation, the characteristic of regionalization becomes multi-formed, multi-layered and regional intercrossed. That is, subregional economical cooperation organizations have formed from regional economical cooperation organizations. The economical cooperation of Greater Mekong Subregion(GMS) advanced by Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been increasingly attracted much attention. As pollution-free industry, tourism have the characteristic of less investment and quick effection, so it's regarded as the most quickly developed industry. And tourism can remit the pressure of employment, solve correlative social problems. Because of this, ADB considers the characteristics of tourism, conditions of all the basal environment and its complementary advantages, and regards tourism as vital industry of GMS cooperation. As the preponderant industry and actual cooperative industry, ADB attaches more attention on the regional tourism cooperation. Guangxi joined in the GMS cooperation in 2005 for the demand of China-ASEAN Free-Trade Area. It can not only advance the course of China-ASEAN Free-Trade Area, but also promote exoteric development of Guangxi and the strategy of"Go-Out", improve the width and depth of"Open-outside"policy. As the precessive experimental plot, How to have its strategic effect on the tourism even economical development of GMS, it's a new problem for people.This paper maily uses quantitative method, with qualitative method, to analyse tourism development of Guangxi in the GMS. According to Regional Economics, Tourism Geography, Administration, Measure Economics theories, the paper makes main factor analysis and cluster analysis of 5 countries and 2 regions of GMS. The GMS can be classified to be 4 different kinds. And then, according to the conclusion hereinbefore, this paper makes SWOT analysis on Guangxi of its advantages and disadvantages. This paper sums up that, although Guangxi have the oppotunities of China-Asean Free-trade Area, GMS Economical Cooperation, Development of West Region of China, it also faces the competition from west countries, Asean countries and countries/areas nearby, and its own irrational economical structure. These all can have influence on the tourism development. So, this paper gives some suggestion for these problems, that is, Guangxi should intensify its cooperation with GMS other countries (regions) in the following aspects: tourism communication, tourism convenience, tourism information, tourism institutions (corporations), tourism human resources exploitation, tourism propagandization and promotion, tourism security. In this way, it can give impulse to the tourism development of Guangxi and the tourism development of GMS.