Title: A Comparative Study on Tourism Consumption Structure of Six Hot Inbound Tourism Cities in China
Abstract: The paper sampled six hot inbound tourism cities in China by collecting related data from 1995 till 2004 and introduced βindex of tourism consumption structure to conduct horizontal and longitudinal comparison study.Some important conclusions obtained are as bellow:(1) tourism consumption structure is composed of many factors,such as general status of a region or area,consumption standards,types of tourism products etc.so tourism consumption structure can not be regarded as the only indicator to judge maturity of its tourism development;(2) changes of tourism consumption structure are positive related to tourism development of an area so β curve line plays a direct role in regional tourism development;(3) evolutions of tourism consumption structure(changes of β) reflects not only supports from macro background of a district but also a driving force of tourism of other related industries.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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