TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF PROVINCIAL TOURISM COMPETITIVENESS SINCE 2001

By selecting the panel data of 31provinces from 2001 to 2010,using the entropy method to determine the weight of each indicator,and the methods of variation coefficient,theil index,gravity centre and standard deviational ellipses,Getis-Ord Gi*,this article described the spatial evolution of total tourism competitiveness and various competitiveness of 31provinces.The results show that under the current conditions,the tourism marketing competitiveness was the most important factor that affected the tourism competitiveness,followed by tourism resource competitiveness,tourism industrial competitiveness,and tourism insurance competitiveness.The tourism competitiveness gap between the mainland provinces had decreased from 2001 to 2010,the differentiation among the three belts had generally decreased.The provincial tourism competitiveness generally presented anorthwest-southeastpattern,and the gravity centre generally shifted to the southeast.Through the analysis of G index,it found that every tourism competitiveness had been improved to some extent,the hot-cold spots areas of tourism competitiveness had a widening trend.The hot-spot areas of tourism competitiveness mainly concentrated in some provinces in South China and the Yangtze River Delta,cold-spot areas mainly distributed in some provinces in the North and West of China.Studying the temporal and spatial evolution of tourism competitiveness can find thesoft underbellyof provincial tourism development.It has a great significant to improve the provincial tourism development and imbalance regional tourism development gap.