Analysis on the Trend of Tourism Competition among Major Tourism Provinces

Owing to the lack of dynamic researches on the tourism competition at present,this paper tries to build up an index system of tourism competition according to overall quantity,quality,effect,and power of growth,and calculates the scores of the indicators among the major provinces in 2000 and 2005,as well as ranking and clustering,and then comparatively analyzes the tourism competition of the major provinces mainly on the main factors,the level and the characteristics of all types.The result shows that the quality and efficiency of tourism play more and more obvious roles to the regional tourism economic,meanwhile the power of growth has stagnated;from the development of the overall tourism industry,the competition has developed from scale to diversification;from the development of the regional tourism industry,the gap among the major provinces has narrowed while their internal gap has widened.