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Title: A Study of Barriers to Regional Tourism in China
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2009
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DOI: 10.13959/J.ISSN.1003-2398.2009.01.020
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Abstract: With the sound development of tourism in China, "the construction of barrier-free tourism area" has become the common target for most regions in China. After years of exploration, most regions find that the key point to solve the problem is to eliminate the "tourism barrier". However, the researches on such problems have not been found yet. By analyzing different point of views, the paper concludes that the features of regional tourism barriers are the inconsistency of traveling, unequal sources of information, poor quality of services, and the localization of management. From the perspective of political administration division, tourism management and tourism economics, the paper presents out the definition of regional tourism barrier, and the factors influencing the occurrence and development of the regional tourism barrier. Also, the paper cleans out that those problems are not caused by the political zoning system in China, but by the regional market segmentation due to the patterns of the relationship between government and market. The political zoning system in China is the basic governance system, and those political administration regions are endowed with the rights of organizing its economical activities. As the growing of the economical power of those regions, there come more economical competitions among those regions. So, many of these regions made some regional policies so as to protect its economical benefits, however, most of those policies are harmful to the economical development of the country as a whole. Those regional economical policies cause the bases of regional tourism barriers. Thus, the paper holds that to eliminate regional tourism barrier, the market competition should be standardized, the credibility of tourism market must be advanced, the quality of tourism service must be promoted, meanwhile, the regional tourism transportation and the tourism information communication must be perfected on the base of the . . .
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Authors: He, Xiao-Dong; Sun, Peng
Periodical (Full): Human Geography
Issue: 1
Volume: 24
Pages: 106-109
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