Regional differences and the contributory factors based on tourism economy in river delta of yangtze of China using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Abstract

China’s tourism industry has made remarkable achievements since reframing and beginning, but the imbalanced expansion of regional tourism has become increasingly severe. This paper involves the analysis of combining index analysis and factor analysis and employs SPSS software to make a quantitative analysis on the differences and the contributory factors of the tourism economy in Yangtze River Delta in China from 2006 to 2016. The results have demonstrated that there exists an imbalance in the development of tourism economy in the Yangtze River Delta, and that there is a significant spatial difference with a yearly trend of decrease. Besides, a major gap lies among the comprehensive development level of tourism economy of the cities in the Yangtze River Delta. In this paper, Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process is used for making decision based analysis process for tourism economy. The comprehensive development level of tourism economy in Shanghai, Suzhou and Nanjing is much higher than that in other cities. Tourism resources endowment, tourism reception facilities and the development level of regional economy are important contributory factors of the regional differences of economy based on tourism in river delta of Yangtze, and there exists an extremely obvious positive correlation.