Analysis of Tourism Competitiveness of the Cities in Anhui Province Based on Theil Coefficient

This paper firstly establishes an evaluation index system of tourism competitiveness,including tourism realistic competitiveness,tourism potential competitiveness and tourism support competitiveness.Then the tourism competitiveness of the cities in Anhui Province is evaluated by using the method of analytic hierarchy process(AHP).Based on the evaluation results,these cities are divided into the strongest tourism competitiveness type,stronger tourism competitiveness type,general tourism competitiveness type and weak tourism competitiveness type.And the Theil coefficient is used to quantitatively analyze the internal differences and the category differences among the four types of cities,so as to explore the origin of overall differences about Anhui tourism competitiveness and the origin of the category differences among the four types of cities.Finally,some measures to promote the balanced development of tourism in Anhui Province are put forward.