Abstract：In recent years, the niche theory is used more and more in social and economic domain. The concept of niche, offering a new way for the competition strategy research of the industry cluster, is essentially a description of the relative positions and roles formed in the interaction process between the organisms in a particular ecosystem and their environment. It has very important practical significance to study how to choose the correct niche strategy, identify one's core competitiveness, and break away from the development difficulties for the tourism industry cluster (TIC) in China. The paper firstly summarizes the correlated theory research on the niche, and proposes that the industry cluster niche is its occupied resource space in the regional ecosystem through its own conditions, and further more brings forward the concept and features of the TIC niche based on its characteristics. The niche of TIC, defined in a certain range relatively, is an estate formed after the interaction between the features of the TIC. The TIC niche consists of tourism resources, the cluster management and the cluster environmental niche. The niche of the tourism resources is the basis of the niche of TIC, and the niche of cluster management is the dynamics for its development while the niche of clusters' environment is the support. The article analyzes the change characteristics of TIC niche. TIC niche is not immutable, and would constantly change with the change of its own conditions and the external environment. Many factors will lead to the niche expansion or niche compression of TIC. Finally, this paper provides three niche strategies for the development of TIC in China, including the niche generalization, the niche specialization and the niche optimization.
王兆峰. 旅游产业集群的生态位策略研究[J]. 人文地理, 2009, 24(1): 12-15,118.
WANG Zhao-feng. RESEARCH ON THE NICHE STRATEGY OF TOURISM INDUSTRY CLUSTER. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2009, 24(1): 12-15,118.
