An Analysis Of Tourism Industrial Correlation And Industrial Spread Effect

Tourism industry with its long industrial chain, the obvious correlation effect andradiating widely feature, plays an important role in the development of the nationaleconomy. Tourism industry which pulls or promotes the development of relatedsectors becomes one of the most vibrant industries which is full of hope in the21stcentury’s. With the implementation of the "Western Development" strategy, SichuanProvince where has unique tourism resources takes tourism as the key industry of thewhole province. The total income of tourism in Sichuan Province accounted for morethan GDP10%in recent years. The total tourist income reached244.915billion yuanin2011, accounting for GDP12%. The tourism industry has become the dominant,pillar industry in Sichuan Province. The rapid development of tourism industry inSichuan Province, will the food, lives, the line, shopping, entertainment, etc multipleindustry department connected together through the tourism industry associationeffect and spread effect. It is not only directly contributing to the development ofrelated industries in the tertiary industry, but also contributing to the development ofthe primary and the secondary industries through the tourism industry linkage andindustry spread effect. The tourism becomes the basis of economic growth point ofSichuan Province, and plays the role of tourism “one industry thriving, economicprosperous”to promote Sichuan economic health, orderly and sustainable mannertowards the“12th five-Year Plan target development”.First of all, based on the statistics data Input-Output Table of Sichuan Province in2007, by using the relevance theories of industry related to tourism economics,separates tourism from the tertiary industry to form the four major categories ofindustry such as the primary industry, secondary industry and tertiary industry andtourism. Secondly, this paper systemically analyzes quantitative of the industrylinkage and industry spread effect of Sichuan Province tourism industry by directconsumption coefficient, the total consumption coefficient, direct distributioncoefficient, complete partition coefficient etc index. Finally, based on the aboveanalysis, this paper summarizes the Sichuan Province tourism industry characteristicswhich plays a significant role in promoting greater than the supply conclusions andmakes a few suggestions for the development of tourism in Sichuan.