A Comparative Study of Tourism Competitiveness of Main Coastal Cities Around Bohai Sea

Tourism industry,as an important growth pole of the coastal cities around the Bohai Sea has aroused great concern.Tianjin,Qinhuangdao,Dalian and Qingdao are major tourist cities in this region.Comparing and quantitatively analyzing the tourism competitiveness will further promote their tourism industry.Competitiveness evaluation model is to be established from three aspects:the competitiveness of tourism performance;the competitiveness of the tourism environment support and the competitiveness of the tourism potential.And by executing factor analysis with SPSS13.0 software,the value of various types of competitive rates is obtained.Finally,by having the various types of variance contribution rate as weights,the overall comprehensive assessment value is gained.Base on the results,the paper holds that the regional tourism should take integrated strategies.