Research On Determinants Of International Competitiveness Of Tourism Destination

In the twenty-first century, determinants theory of international competitiveness of tourism destination gradually becomes the focus of tourism research with the severity competition of international tourism industry. It is the core of theory system about international competitiveness of tourism destination, the base for studying competitiveness assessment of tourism destination. Although there are many researches on this field, it is not well enough to solve these problems.This dissertation focuses on determinants theoretical study of international competitiveness of tourism destination. Aimed to overcome the shortage in determinants theory, this dissertation fastens on the model , mechanism and quantitative analysis on its determinants and competitiveness of tourism destination international competitiveness, which is supposed to provide a good guidance on developing Chinese tourism industry.By applying industry structure, enterprise capability, compare advantage and competition advantage theory and so on to Chinese tourism development, the dissertation builds a concept model about international competitiveness determinants of tourism destination, extends the knowledge space about the determinants of tourism competitiveness, gets over the malpractice of not giving enough regard to industry factor of affecting tourism competitiveness. Then, from the point of economics, applying principal analysis, classify analysis, and multi-regression analysis, the dissertation probes into affecting mechanism of every determinant on tourism competitiveness, the quantify method, importance evaluating method and difference identify method of determinants in intra-province.The conclusions are: tourism resource, tourism capital and labor force, industry structure, enterprise capability, government function and location are eight important influence factors of tourism competitiveness; the influence of tourism resource, tourism capital and tourism labor force infrastructure on tourism competitiveness is manifested in creating comparison advantage for tourism destination, and the influence of industry structure, government function, enterprise capability on tourism competitiveness is manifested in creating competition advantage for tourism destination. The rank in importance for every determinant is infrastructure, tourism capital and labor force, tourism resource, enterprise capability, government function and industry structure. Location difference has a great affect on intra-province tourism competitiveness. There exists great difference between provinces.