| With the theories and methodologies about tourism, economics, city and system, the thesis discussed the issue about tourism center city, including the concept, items, types, functions and the relation with regional tourism. Tourism center city is same to other tourism cities. They should have complete tourism functions. The service function to the regional tourism is the key factor to decide a city to become tourism center city. Yet the increasing of city's attraction is very helpful to strengthen its status as a tourism center city.At present, the image of Zhengzhou city gets behind. There are few famous attractions. Hospitality is the most important proportion of tourism industry. As the tourism center city of Henan province, Zhengzhou has many advantages, such as the entrance availability, the basas of tourism industry and the macroscopical surroundings. It also has some disadvantages, such as the indistinctive tourism image, screens of other famous attractions and so on.The development of tourism industry in a city is influenced by many factors, such as resources, industry factors, regional surrounding and so on. They drive the city developing as a distributing center and destination. Tourism center city services to itself and the region. It brings along each other with regional tourism industry. Zhengzhou should put tourism industry to a higher lay, set the image as service center, the capital of Shang-dynasty and the culture center of Henan province. Zhengzhou must increase its service function and attracting function. At the same time, it should upgrade the structure of tourism industry, should optimize space factors, should adjust structure of product and exploit market. In order to increase the status as tourism center city, Zhengzhou should develop its hospitality and entertainment, deeply dig correlative resources and optimize the urban tourism system.There are many similar cities in China. They have the similar items and features. In order to accelerate the development of tourism industry, they should strengthen the construction, cooperate with the regions and set its unique image to advance their status as tourism center city. |