On Tourism Characteristic of Beijing/Tianjin/Hebei Region and Tianjin's Comparative Advantage of Regional Tourism

The tourism industry has experienced the scenic spot competition, the route competition, the city competition, starting to enter the stage of region competition. At present, the Chinese domestic cooperation in regional tourism has started a new upsurge. Looking from the advantage and the growth rate of Beijing/Tianjin/Hebei regional tourism, the development potential is enormous. The year of 2005 - 2010 is the development period of Tianjin's eleventh five-year plan, as well as a crucial time for Tianjin's tourism industry to realize great development. Furthermore, it is the strategic opportunity time for Tianjin to play vital role in regional economy including the regions of Beijing/Tianjin/Hebei, pan-Bohai Sea, and Northeast Asia. We should hold this opportunity, on the basis of comparative advantage of Tianjin city in the Beijing/Tianjin/Hebei region, setting its heart at rest to complete Tianjin's tourism development strategy, which may include market orientation, industrial orientation, the modality orientation of tourism product, the image orientation of traveling destination, as well as the development strategy of traveling resources and policy support system, etc.