Title: Study on Tourism Industry Agglomeration within Yangtze-Delta
Abstract: Regional tourist cooperation within Yangtze-delta cries for research on the agglomeration level of tourism industry.This thesis measured the agglomeration level of tourism industry in Yangtze-delta by applying the G index of Industrial Gini coefficient and the LQ index of industrial location quotient,together with the θ index of industrial spatial agglomeration,and made a correlation analysis between the tourism industrial spatial agglomeration and the gross domestic product within Yangtze-delta.The results indicate that the overall agglomeration level of tourism industry of Yangtze-delta is increasing continuously with unbalanced degree within the region.It is identified that the gross domestic product of Yangtze-delta has a relatively high correlation with the hotel industrial spatial agglomeration,has a relatively opposite correlation with the travel agency and a relatively low correlation with the other enterprises.The result also shows that the level of agglomeration is highly related with the level of economic development of the region and industries of high agglomeration have a driving force on economic growth in certain extent.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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