Title: The Basic Features of Tourism Resources and Differences between the Cities in the Pearl River Delta
Abstract: The Pearl River Delta (PRD) plays an important role in the regional tourism development in China, so it is of significance to research the tourism resources. To deal with the difficulty of conducting quantitative evaluation of the tourism resources in a large area, the qualitative and quantitative methods are combined to perform a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the basic features of tourism resources in this district, and also to compare the differences in tourism resources of the nine cities in the region. The former task includes the evaluation of the type effect, the intensity effect and the agglomerative effect, while the latter task includes comparison of the abundance degrees, the response indices, the levels of the overall advantages in the nine cities, and comparison of the different roles of these aspects in the tourism development of the nines cities. It is indicated that, the above-mentioned evaluation indices is suitable for the overall evaluation and comparison of the tourism resources in such a big region as the Pearl River Delta. There are significant differences in the amount, combination, and the overall advantages and disadvantages of the tourism resources in the nine cities. Also, these aspects play different roles in the tourism development. Generally, these cities are grouped into three types. Guangzhou, Foshan and Dongguan belong to the economy-driven type, and the tourism development mainly depends on economic factors. Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing belong to the resource-driven type, and their tourism development mainly depends on the traditional tourism resources. The cities of Shenzhen, Zhongshan and Zhuhai are driven by both resource and economy, so their tourism development depends on both of economic factors and traditional tourism resources. According to the performance of tourism economy, the function of traditional tourism resources are the most important for the resource-driven type, while it is least significant in economy-driven cites; however, these results are achieved only from the angle of economic performance. Regardless of the types of the cities, it is of great importance to management the traditional tourism resources, which greatly benefit the environment, the landscape of the city and the cultural elements. The great social, ecological and cultural benefits are essential to the sustainable development of local tourism. It is suggested that the three different types of cities should learn from each other, through cooperative exhibitions of tourism resources. A systematic integration should be promoted for the spatial integration of the tourism resources of these cities.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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