Shift-share Analysis on International Tourism Competitiveness——A Case of Jiangsu Province

Shift-share analysis has been confirmed a useful approach in the study of regional economics and many kinds of extended shift-share models have been advanced and put into practice in economic studies, but few have hitherto been introduced and applied to the tourism research in China. Moreover understanding the spatially competitive relationship is of paramount importance for marketers, developers, and planners involved in tourism strategy development. Based on international tourism receipts from 1995 to 2004, this study aims at probing into the spatial competitiveness of interna- tional tourism in Jiangsu Province in comparison with its neighbors by applying a spatially extended shift-share model and a modified dynamic shift-share model. The empirical results illustrate that exceptional years may exist in the ap- plication of dynamic shift-share models. To solve this issue, modifications to dynamic shift-share model are put forward. The analytical results are not only presented but also explained by the comparison of background conditions of tourism development between Jiangsu and its key competitors. The conclusions can be drawn that the growth of international tourism receipts in Jiangsu mainly attributes to the national component and the competitive component and Zhejiang is the most important rival to Jiangsu during the period of 1995-2004. In order to upgrade the tourism competitiveness, it is indispensable for Jiangsu to take proper positioning, promoting and marketing strategies and to cooperate and integrate with its main rivals.

Dynamic Evaluation on Regional Tourism Competitiveness:Urban Agglomeration of Shandong Peninsula,Eastern China

The article establishes the appraisal index system for entire urban agglomeration and its interior cities individually,concretely including five aspects:driving forces for tourism development,the level of tourism development,tourism impacts,tourism economic connection and tourism contributions of different cities to the whole urban agglomeration.As tourism competitiveness has the characteristics of comprehensiveness,systematicness and dynamicness,the article attempts to apply the structural prediction means of system dynamics to evaluating tourism competitiveness,aiming to provide some research methods and analysis ideas for tourism competitiveness measurement and trends analysis in urban agglomeration.Taking Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration as the study area,the article simulates and analyzes the tourism competitiveness trend of the whole region and its interior cities from 2005 to 2020,and the result reflects that integrated development and regional combination of tourism are important means to upgrade tourism competitiveness in this region.

Study on the Temporal Pattern of Chinese Tourism Competitiveness

As the importance of tourism economy for a region's economic development is standing out,tourism competitiveness becomes an important indicator to measure a region's economic development.In this paper,based on the related researches of other scholars,with the data from the China Tourism Statistical Yearbook as the basic support,a tourism competitiveness system covering 44 indicators of 6 items including industry scale competitiveness,consumption competitiveness,extraversion competitiveness and industry development competitiveness was constructed,and the competitiveness of 31 provinces and cities in China during 1996 and 2004 was comparatively studied.It was found that there were obvious differences among the tourism competitiveness of different provinces,and generally speaking,the comprehensive competitiveness showed a two-way development trend;from the view of the individual competitiveness,the scale competitiveness of the tourism showed a polarization trend;there were obvious changes in the consumption competitiveness;the extraversion as a whole has been improved;the industry development competitiveness has been steadily promoted;the reception ability of different provinces differed greatly and the advantages of scientific and technological progress was becoming more and more significant.

Strategies to Promote the Urban Tourism Competitiveness in Shenyang Based on Modern Service Industry Framework

By describing the status quo of tourism industry in Shenyang and by eval- uating and comparatively analyzing the tourism competitiveness in the four cities of Shenyang, Dalian, Changchuan and Harbin, this paper points out advantages and existing problems in tourism competitiveness of Shenyang and finally comes up with strategies to promote the competitiveness of tourism in Shenyang.

Evaluation on Urban Tourism Competitiveness of Beibu Gulf Rim Based on the Entropy Approach

The tourism competitiveness of the cities around the Beibu Gulf was studied using the entropy method from the perspective of the 14 indexes of tourism current competitiveness,tourism support competitiveness and tourism potential competitiveness.The results show that the cities of Sanya,Nanning and Haikou have the stronger competitiveness;the cities of Zhanjiang,Beihai,Chongzuo and Maoming have moderate competitiveness;and the cities of Yulin,Qinzhou,Yangjiang and Fangchenggang have the weak competitiveness.According to the analysis of the index weight and comprehensive ranking,almost each aspect contributes to the city competitiveness.The index weights of the tourism current competitiveness,tourism support competitiveness and tourism potential competitiveness are 0.27222,0.3938 and 0.33398,respectively.Based on the niche theory,the article put forward the strategies:dislocation development,balanced development and regional tourism competition and cooperation development.

Approaches for Improvement of Competitiveness of Bama Rural Health-caring Tourism from the Deep Perspective of Tourism,China

After analysis of characteristics of Bama rural health-caring tourism,it had highlighted monopolisticness of longevity culture,diversity of tourist resources,and harmony between human and nature.The paper pointed out that,to accelerate new countryside construction of Bama rural health-caring tourism,it should realize nearby employment and increase farmers' income;complete construction of rural basic facilities;ameliorate rural sanitary condition and transform villagers' thought;promote adjustment of rural industrial structure;and establish protection mechanism of longevous people.After survey on development of Bama rural tourism,it concluded bottlenecks restricting Bama rural tourism development,which were that environment at longevity area had suffered pollution;that the development was disordered and lacked of management;and that basic facilities waited for improvement.On this basis,approaches for improvement of competitiveness of Bama health-caring tourism had been proposed.It emphasized that it should enhance protection of longevity tourist resources,build farmhouse inn demonstration base,implement admittance system,establish community health-care system,beneficial to realizing economic,social and ecological benefits,and further manifesting its exuberant vitality.

Core Competitiveness Elements of Tourism Industry in Ethnic Villages

Decisive and correlative factors of tourism industry core competitiveness in ethnic villages were analyzed, and it was proposed that location, environment, facilities and service quality laid the foundation of tourism industry core competitiveness, tourism attractions were the core, construction of tourism industry cluster was the direction, and tourism business management model was the guarantee.

Analysis on Competitiveness of Lingnan Distinctive Architectural Tourist Cultural Sites in Guangdong Province Based on GIS

By using multi-objective analysis method, five architectural tourist sites with Lingnan characteristics were selected. Through the analysis on relevant data obtained by GIS, spatial analysis research had been conducted on competitiveness of Lingnan distinctive architectural tourist cultural sites in Guangdong Province and some conclusions had been obtained.

Study upon the Spatial Structure of Regional Eco-tourism-Based upon the Perspective of Supply and Demand and Competition Field

Along with the coming of the low-carbon era, people have paid more and more attention to the natural environment and eco-tourism will embrace a huge development. From the perspectives of the market relationship of supply-demand in economics and of field competition in physics, this paper has discussed upon the present status of the spatial structure of eco-tourism, and analyzed the relationship between supply-demand and field, in order to clarify the direction for the balance between supply and demand in the field and to guide eco-tourism to the way of sustainable development.

Core Competitiveness as the Fundamental Guarantee for Sustainable Development of Geo-parks

With the booming development over the past years,geo-parks have achieved impressive progress together with a series of problems.Most importantly,geological tourism is not in prosperity.How to prosper geological tourism and achieve the sustainable development of geoparks is the top concern of workers engaged in tourism geology in China.This article discusses the problem from the perspective of core competitiveness of geo-parks,particularly from three aspects of subject,object and medium,and puts forward methods to form the core competitiveness.

Innovation, Competitiveness and Prosperity： A Factor Analysis of Innovation Indicators in Spain

Competitiveness is a wide concept applied to many fields, especially in economics. The study of tourism competitiveness has been focused on different factors that can enhance the prosperity of a destination. One of these factors is innovation. Innovation makes destination＇s enterprises more advanced and efficient, therefore more productive. Innovation is an enhancer of competitiveness and a generator of prosperity because innovation in every aspect （technology, knowledge, organization, and processes） will provide a better quality of life for the inhabitants of the destination. The incidence of innovation on these concepts is validated by a structural equation model. We measure innovation by a range of indicators and through a factor analysis; we get the most relevant indicators of innovation for the model developed in Spain.

Challenges of Public Management to Consolidate the Gulf of Morrosquillo as a Competitive Tourism Destination

The theoretical discourse focuses on unscrambling the differences between public management and private management, while new tools and techniques have been provided by recent trends in public management. This paper centers on a critical analysis and what the purpose of the government＇s management is; which refers to consolidate the Gulf of Morrosquillo （Colombia） as a competitive tourism destination for it to be as relevant as any other tourism destinations. Even though public management never stops, it is imperative for the governance to delineate the appropriate development path of a region to guarantee the correct conditions for it to be promoted properly. Methodologically speaking, this paper was started with the revision of the literature about the macro-environment related to touristic activities and an instrument was used to collect the information, which was designed to gather data about the lodging establishments. It is necessary to raise the awareness of the public management of the different municipalities that form the Gulf of Morrosquillo for them to acknowledge their weaknesses so that they will be able to formulate the appropriate programs to improve the estate of the destination.

Application and Practice of the Teaching Model of “Promoting Teaching by Competition” in Tourism Management Specialty

The fundamental task of applied universities is to cultivate high-level applied talents facing the needs of economic and social development, and "promoting teaching by competition" is the booster for the construction of applied universities and the reform of talent training mode in colleges and universities.Taking tourism management specialty as an example, the needs of subject skill competition for students’personality ability are analyzed, and the teaching mode of "promoting teaching by competition" is constructed, and the implementation of teaching process and classroom teaching design are analyzed.Moreover, the supporting conditions of the teaching mode of "promoting teaching by competition" are put forward, such as building and perfecting the practice and training base, deepening the integration of industry and education and the cooperation of work and study, and strengthening the construction of teachers.

The Religious Tourism as a Competitive Advantage of the Prefecture of Pieria,Greece

The scope of the present paper is the research of whether the prefecture of Pieria comprises an attractive destination for religious tourism and pilgrimage.For this reason,the use of questionnaires takes place which aims to realizing if and to what extend this form of tourism comprises a comparative and competitive advantage for the prefecture of Pieria.The research method of this paper is the qualitative research and more specifically the use of questionnaires with 13 questions in total.The scope was to research whether the prefecture of Pieria is a religious-pilgrimage destination.The sample is comprised of 102 participants,being Greek residents originating from other Greek counties,the European Union,and Third World Countries.The requirement was for the participant to have visited the prefecture of Pieria.The independency test(x2)was used for checking the interconnections between the different factors,while at the same time an allocation of frequencies was conducted based on the study and presentation of frequency as much as relevant frequency.Due to the fact that,no other similar former researches have been conducted regarding religious tourism in Pieria,this research will be able to give some useful conclusions.These conclusions will lead us to more specialized knowledge on the tourism of the under study prefecture.

Segment-Centric Geo-Competitive Environment of a Tourism Destination (A Case of Georgia)

This work aims to introduce a conceptual approach to determining the competitive environment for a particular tourist destination by considering popular outbound destinations of its leading segments.This approach we name as a concept of a segment-centered geo-competitive environment of a tourism destination(SGE-TD).The applied methodology includes consideration of the popularity of tourist destinations for each selected segment and the indicators of leading segments of the studied destination.The practical application of the proposed concept is examined in the case of Georgia as a tourist destination by selecting its leading segments and identifying their popular travel destinations.The integrated consideration and application of the mentioned indicators define the competitive position of a destination(in this case Georgia)among the specified tourism destinations,considered as the geo-competitive environment.This research suggests an innovative version of the universal conceptual approach to identify the leading competing destinations for a specific studied one.It fills the gap in similar studies where competing destinations for the analysis are selected based on specific research objectives,missing the universal conceptual approach in this regard.

Normative Versus Perceptual Gap Analysis of Hotel Product Quality as a Service to Tourism in Kenya

Kenya＇s tourism business stagnated from 1991 to 2003 and only registered small but steady grew from 2004. One of the sectors that recorded poor performance as a result of the slow growth of tourism is the hotel business. Despite this slack, stakeholders in Kenya have not tried to assess the extent to which the quality of this sector may impact on destination preference. The ultimate purpose of this research was to establish the quality gap between the expected and the perceived hotel product/service quality from both the perspective of the tourists and the hotel operators in Kenya. It was motivated by the need to create parameters that can elavate the competitiveness of Kenya＇s tourism using the hotel product/service quality offer. Descriptive quantitative research design was used to establish the secondary objectives and to assess two propositions set for the study. A sample of 211 tourists and 19 hotel operators in two major tourist provinces of Kenya was used to obtain information regarding normative and perceptive hotel product/service quality. Kenya＇s only destination marketing organisation, Kenya Tourist Board （KTB） marketers were also surveyed to provide insight on Kenya＇s destination position with regard to the motivation of tourists to visit Kenya. The study established that although the attractions which make tourists come to Kenya are the unique wildlife safari, beach tourism and the natural scenery, hotel product quality and hospitality plays a vital role in motivating tourists to choose Kenya as the destination to visit. However, this study found out that while the tourists and hotel operators agree on the normative hotel product quality level, there is a significant gap between the normative quality and the perceptual quality registered by tourists who used hotel services. The study established that hotel operators only recognize quality regulatory institutions with statutory and legal authority to incriminate facilities that do not comply with laid down operational requirements such as Hotels and Restaurants Authority and the Local Authority Public Health Department. The study has proposed an integrated framework that may be utilized to build a superior national hotel product/service quality so that the economic potential of tourism is maximized in Kenya.

Sustainability and Tourism in the Era of Asia Pacific

For the whole world the source of income,employment,and economic growth has been strongly disrupted by tourism.Today,the context of its membership in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC)plays a fundamental role in achieving a great development;this dissertation analyzes tourism in this block as an economic activity that interacts with the environment,causing not only positive effects such as improving competitiveness,increasing population labor system and an economic increase in the countries that touch it;but also negative consequences,such as tourism overcrowding and poor resource management that can destroy the tourist base on which the sector depends.The theoretical basis of the research rests on the analysis of the proposals for sustainable tourism competitiveness with which this economic block counts,in order to analyze the empirical results of the application of environment and sustainable development indicators with respect to tourism,as well as the perception,on that subject,of national and international by actors and organisms within APEC.

中国省域旅游竞争力与旅游网络关注度空间错位研究

正确把握中国省域旅游竞争力与旅游网络关注度的错位关系,对推动区域旅游高质量发展大有裨益。基于新发展理念构建旅游竞争力评价指标体系,采用重力模型、空间错位指数综合考察2011—2020年中国省域旅游竞争力与旅游网络关注度的空间错位特征及影响因素。结果表明:①研究期内中国省域旅游竞争力与旅游网络关注度均呈增长趋势且具有明显的空间分异性,旅游竞争力重心呈集聚分布态势,旅游网络关注度重心则随时间波动变化,大致位于旅游竞争力重心的西南方向;②中国省域旅游竞争力与旅游网络关注度空间错位格局由东至西呈现出正向错位向负向错位逐渐过渡的分布特征,正向高错位区由东部沿海省域向中部省域延伸,负向高错位区主要分布在西部特色旅游地与热门网红城市;③旅游资源禀赋、经济社会发展、政府政策导向、网络环境等多种因素综合作用促成旅游竞争力与旅游网络关注度的空间错位格局。

安徽省旅游效率和旅游竞争力的耦合协调演化及影响因素——基于DEA-Tobit模型的分析

通过构建旅游效率与旅游竞争力综合评价指标体系,以安徽省16市为案例地,采用DEA模型、熵值法、耦合协调模型分析安徽省2011—2019年各市旅游效率系统与旅游竞争力系统的耦合协调关系,运用Tobit模型定量识别其影响因素。结果表明:安徽省旅游效率整体水平较高,在空间格局上呈现稳定性和规律性的演化特征;安徽省旅游竞争力水平整体上不断提升,呈现由双核主导(合肥市、黄山市)向单核极化(合肥市)演变的格局特征;安徽省旅游综合效率系统和旅游竞争力系统的耦合协调时序演化较为稳定,空间差异较大;产业结构水平、市场规模、对外开放程度、旅游产业专业化程度对旅游效率和旅游竞争力系统的耦合协调发展起正向促进作用,而城市化水平、信息化水平反向抑制其协调发展。

兴边富民视角下边境县域旅游竞争力评价研究——以云南省边境少数民族自治县为例

大力发展边境旅游能有效助推边境少数民族地区实现兴边富民。从基础条件竞争力、现状发展竞争力、富民竞争力和潜力竞争力四个维度构建边境县域旅游竞争力评价体系。采用因子分析和聚类分析,对云南省9个边境少数民族自治县县域旅游竞争力进行测度和聚类。结果表明:边境旅游强竞争力县域有河口县、耿马县、金平县;边境旅游较强竞争力县域有澜沧县、孟连县和江城县;边境旅游弱竞争力县域有西盟县、沧源县和贡山县,究其原因是各边境少数民族自治县在旅游资源基础和政府扶持政策及县域经济发展水平方面存在差距。云南省边境少数民族地区旅游业仍有较大发展空间和发展潜力,未来发展应注重改善基础设施,创造开放发展条件;依托少数民族特色,开发人文资源;加强县域间合作,形成联动发展。