湘赣两省地级市旅游产业综合竞争力评价与聚类分析

A Comparative Study on Tourism Comprehensive Competitiveness of Prefecture-Level Cities between Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces

运用因子分析及主成分法对湘赣两省城市的旅游产业竞争力进行比较评价,并在此基础上以各类公因子得分系数为聚类变量,依次对样本城市进行层次聚类分析。研究发现:湘赣两省城市存有鲜明的区域发展异质性,并形成旅游产业发达领先型、相对优势型、成长积累型以及提升赶超型四类区域格局。最后文章立足于长江中游湘赣两省城市,从旅游产业综合竞争力现状出发,以区域竞合关系为视角,提出了相关对策建议。

The competitiveness of tourism industry is a comprehensive reflection about the status of regional tourism development, the potential of sustainable growth and association effect. This paper uses factor analysis and principal component analysis to compare the competitiveness of the tourism industry of cities in Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces. On the basis of this, hierarchical clustering analysis is carried out respectively on the sample cities. The study shows that the distinct heterogeneity of regional development exists in Hunan-Jiangxi Provinces and four types of regional patterns are formed as the leading type of tourism industry, relatively dominant type, growth accumulation type and enhancing type. Finally, this paper, taking the cities in Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces as samples, is based on the perspectives of the current status about the regional tourism industry competitiveness and regional coo-petition relations to put forward some countermeasures and suggestions for optimizing the coo-petition relation of tourism industry in the two provinces and promoting collaborative development of the economy in central regions of China.