Study On The Relationship Between The Agglomeration Degree Of Tourism Industry Cluster And The Tourism Economic Growth In Chongqing

With the deepening trend of economic integration all over the world,the development of the tourism industry is growing rapidly.Tourism industrial cluster mode is formed in many countries,such as the Anaheim city tourism cluster,Kyushu,Japan hot spring tourism cluster,and Canadian wine tourism cluster.A lot of tourism industry clusters spring up in domestic,such as the theme tourism industry cluster centered in Shanghai at the coastal area,the cluster development from theme park to creative city of Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town(OCT),Zhangjiajie forest tourism industry cluster for having the unique forest resources,Anji Zhejiang County tourism industry cluster and so on.However,about Chongqing tourism industry cluster,there is a lack of understanding and research,especially lack of empirical study.In order to make sure the tourism industry cluster developed in a reasonable and healthy way,this paper conduct a quantitative analysis on the tourism industry cluster status of Chongqing city,and on its impact on tourism economy increasing and thus to provide suggestions to those who initiate policies.Based on the study and analysis of literatures about tourism industry cluster and its economic benefit,this paper probes into the development status and characteristics of tourism industrial cluster in Chongqing,and systematically analyses the relationship between the cluster degree of tourism industry cluster in Chongqing city and tourism economic growth.Firstly,this paper analyses how inner co-integrated relationship of tourism industry cluster drives the economic growth base on Marshall’s Theory of Scale Economy,Theory of Development Pole,Coordinated effect theory and Endogenous Economic Growth;secondly,recognizing the exist status of Chongqing tourism industry cluster by adopting Location entropy from two different aspect of tourism scale with the total income of Chongqing tourism as the research object and tourism industry which divides tourism industry into 12 specific fields within 3 groups.Finally,using the panel data of 12 specific tourism industry during 2000 and 2007-2014 in Chongqing City as the study object,this paper conducts the empirical study of the relationship between tourism industry cluster degree in Chongqing city and tourism economic growth with the DPGMM method.Then demonstrate the theoretical hypotheses with the result of above empirical study.The results shows an inverted "U" type about the relationship between tourism industry cluster degree and tourism economic growth of Chongqing city,which means inthe early stages of the tourism industry cluster,tourism economic growth relatively fast,that is,positively related;when the cluster degree reaches to a certain level,tourism industry agglomeration began to restrain the growth of tourism economy.Base on the result of above study,this paper puts forward several proposals to develop tourism industry cluster reasonably and promote regional tourism economic growth.