A Study On Agglomeration Degree And Economic Effects Of Tourism Industry Clusters In Fujian Province

Industry cluster is a universal phenomenon in regional economic development. And it is one of the most important ways to enhance regional competitiveness as well. Current researches on industrial cluster concentrate more on manufacturing, while few on tourism and other service industry. However, there are lots of foreign successful cases showing that the tourism industry also has agglomeration, such as the North Dakota Tourism Clusters in United States, the Wine and Agricultural Tourism Clusters in Canada, the Body Mechanics Tourism Clusters in Alps and so on. By studying the regional tourism industry clusters, some scholars at home and abroad find that industry cluster has an important role on upgrading the local tourism industry's competitiveness and promoting regional economic development. This article sets Fujian Province as an inspection object, calculates agglomeration degree of its tourism industry clusters and analyses the economic effects brought by the tourism industry clusters, with a view to promote the tourism industry cluster study and put forward some relative suggestions for policy makers.In this article, the first chapter introduces the background and significance of the study, summarizes the domestic and foreign researches on agglomeration degree and economic effects of tourism industrial cluster, and then describes the methods and the framework of this article.The second chapter reviews the theory of tourism industry cluster and their effects. Based on the content, structure and characteristics of the tourism industry clusters, this chapter introduces theories on economic effects of tourism industry cluster.ChapterⅢanalyzes the status quo of the tourism industry development of Fujian Province as a whole and the cities around, laying the foundation for the fourth chapter, which is related to the tourism industry cluster in Fujian.ChapterⅣuses location quotient, spatial Gini coefficient, the nearest-neighbor index and spatial linkage index to calculate the agglomeration degree of tourism industry clusters in Fujian, and puts forward the following conclusion, Fujian has already emerged 4 tourism industry clusters in 4 cities: Xiamen, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Nanping City. Also, these cities have different degrees of agglomeration. Then analyzes the economic effects the four tourism industry clusters brought to the local and Fujian Province's economy from three aspects: the stimulating effect to the regional economy, the brand effect to regional tourism industry and the optimizing effect to tourism industry structure.Based on the fact that the tourism industry clusters can enhance the competitiveness of the tourism industry and promote economic development, ChapterⅤputs forward some policy proposals to develop the tourism industry clusters in Fujian Province.