Study On The Development Of Tourism Industry In Shuozhou City Under The Background Of Transition Of Resource-based Economies

The resource-based city is an important energy supply base of our country. Due to the long-term predatory exploitation, resource-based cities are facing a series of problems—— resource depletion, serious damage to the ecological environment and the lag of city infrastructure construction, which become a bottleneck to restrict the sustainable development of the resource-based city. Therefore, the restructuring and development of resource-based city is imperative. November 12, 2013, State council issued the "national resource-based sustainable urban development plan(2013-2020)" for issues of resource-based cities. The contents of the provisions include the number and type of the resource-based city and the transition tasks of all kinds of cities.Shuozhou City is classified as the growing resource-based city, which means the city’s economic transition is about to be taken into the agenda. Shuozhou City possesses two obvious advantages——coal resources and tourism resources which are beneficial to the economic development. At present, with a large number of mining of coal resources, the advantage of coal resources is no longer prominent while the advantage of tourism resources has not been converted into industrial advantage. We should make the most use of its rich and distinctive tourism resources to boost economic restructuring and development. Therefore, the study on the development of tourism industry in Shuozhou City under the background of the transition of resource-based economy has important practical significance for economic restructuring and development of Shuozhou.This paper chooses the typical growing resource-based city, Shuozhou City as the research object. Based on the coupling analysis of economic transition and tourism industry, this paper analyzes the current development of the tourism industry and the existing problems, puts forward the countermeasures to accelerate the development of the tourism industry to promote economic transition. This paper consists of five parts.The first part is the introduction. This part analyzes the background and significance,summarizes the domestic and foreign research results, describes the research contents and research methods, and discusses main innovations and shortcomings. The second part introduces the basic concepts and related theories. This part elaborates the definition of resource-based city, the transition of resource-based economy, the tourism industry. It also describes the theory of economic restructuring, industrial developmenttheory, the coupling theory and the theory of sustainable development. The third part is the focus of the paper. I do coupling analysis of tourism industry and economic transition of Shuozhou City from qualitative and quantitative aspects. The fourth part analyzes the present situation and existing problems of the tourism industry development of Shuozhou City. The fifth part puts forward seven countermeasures and suggestions to accelerate the development of the tourism industry. This paper aims to provide a reference for the development of tourism industry in Shuozhou City.