Evaluation Of The Economic Benefits Of Regional Tourism In China

Pursuing and improving economic benefit is the basic criterion of going into economic activity, as well is the objective requirement for keeping Chinese economy developing. How to strengthen the competition of Chinese tourism industry in the world, keep its high developing speed is the key problem after entering the WTO. Regional tourism industry means centering the tourist city, combining the close-by tourist region into a regional integratiye service industry in which has all-round contact. The concept will provide Chinese tourism industry a new chance. And the first essential theoretic problem need to be solved to catch this chance is the evaluation on the economic benefit of regional tourism industry.In this paper, a systemic evaluation study on the economic benefit of a regional tourism industry in meso-economy is given based on the experiences of the evaluation on the economic benefit of the tourism industry in both macro-economy and micro-economy in the world. In the process of the evaluation, the evaluation criterion is firstly chosen according to different evaluation goals. Then the evaluation object's economic benefit is estimated by using index system and evaluation method. And the conclusion is gotten in succession through comparingthe benefit with the evaluation criterion. At last the conclusion is measured whether the economic benefit of Chinese regional tourism industry can satisfy the requirement of rapid and healthy development or not based on the measure criterion. The application on the west of Hunan's tourism industry shows that the evaluation will be a good guidance in the practice.