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| REGIONAL DIFFERENCE AND SPATIAL PATTERNS OF THE TOURISM EFFICIENCY IN CHINESE PRIMARY TOURIST CITIES |
| MA Xiao-long1,2, BAO Ji-gang2 |
1. China Tourism Academy, Beijing 100005 China;
2. Center for Tourism Planning and Research, Sun Yat-senUniversity, Guangzhou 510275, China |
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Abstract To achieve much higher tourism efficiency for the inputs and utilities of cities' resources is very important, which is a basic reference to analyze the tourism efficiency for confirming the future resources inputs scale. Taking 58 primary tourist cities as the study objects, adapting the statistical data from annals issued by related sectors and using Data Envelopment Analysis method in management science, the tourism efficiencies are measured and the spatial characteristics of their efficiencies are analyzed. The results show that the general efficiency level of these tourist cities is very low, only 5 tourist cities achieve efficient situation, which are Urumchi, Tai-yuan, Shang-hai, Shen-zhen and San-ya. In Eastern, Middle, Western and North-eastern parts, the overall efficiencies and their decompositions of these cities in different regions are compared, and the results show that most of the cities in eastern parts are with higher tourism efficiency than that in the cities in the middle and western regions. The medium value of the cities in the Eastern region is 0.48, followed by the Middle and Western regions of which the medium value is 0.42.The medium value of the cities in North-eastern region is the lowest, which is 0.32. As far as the tourist cities' decompositions (scale efficiency, technology efficiency and congestion efficiency) are considered, the gap of the scale efficiency is very big, but the gap between the technology and congestion efficiency is very small. When the spatial distribution of the efficiency is analyzed, the personal cities with high tourism efficiency (threshold is 0.7), such as Shang-hai, Shen-zhen, San-ya, Zhu-hai, Bei-jing, Zhong-shan and Guang-zhou, are most located in the eastern region, where the economy is very developed. The cities with low tourism efficiency (threshold is 0.2), such as Yan-tai, Xi-ning, Xia-men, Luo-yang, Zhan-jiang, Lian-yungang and Jiu-jiang, are most located in the western and middle regions, where the economy is not very developed. And this paper holds the opinion that the scale efficiency is the direct reason leading to the low overall efficiency.
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Received: 02 September 2008
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2010, Vol. 25 
