Study on the Systematic Framework of Tourism Industry Cluster

Study on tourism industry cluster is a kind of research to the tourism phenomenon that carries on in terms of industry cluster, and it is the crossing area of regional economic and tourism research. At present, though the tourism industry cluster phenomenon widely exists, and there is further development trend, however, the direct theoretical research on the tourism industry cluster is still at primary stage. This is incompatible with the growing practice of tourism industry cluster. During the research of tourism industry cluster, the first problem, we should to solve, is to construct the systematic framework of tourism industry cluster. Generally speaking, tourism industry cluster includes three levels: macro tourism industry cluster, midterm tourism industry cluster, and micro tourism industry cluster. No matter which aspect cluster is involved, tourist resources are always as the core of managing, and take the tourist enterprise as support of managing. There are four kinds of network structure in tourism industry cluster: regional relation network, industry's relation network, relation network on the market and social relationships network. In addition, tourism industry cluster also includes two kinds of markets structure: cooperating type and competiting type. It is exactly hierarchical structure, network structure and market structure that form the systematic framework of tourism industry cluster.