A Study on the Travel Services Trade Development of Chinas Major Cities
Travel services trade has become an important part of the national services trade in each country in the whole world so far While the travel services trade is concentrated on the cities in China. It is very meaningful to promote the further development of urban travel services trade to define the status quo of the travel services trade in Chinas major cities accurately. This paper is based on 27 major cities in China. Using the existing statistic indicators and data, we works out an indicator system to evaluate the travel services trade development of Chinas major cities, which includes 6 primary indicators and 18 secondary indicators? Based on principal component analysis method, this paper evaluates the development of the urban travel services trade quantitatively. And then based on the method of cluster analysis, 27 major cities are divided into 5 main categories and 9 sub-categories. The travel services trade characteristics of each sub-category cities are analyzed. Finally, some suggestions are proposed to further develop the urban travel services trade.
travel services trade chinas major cities principal component analysis method
TIAN Jipeng GE Lifang
School of International Business Administration, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, Shangha Tourism and Event Management School, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, Shanghai, P.R.China,210620
国际会议
威海
英文
743-751
2010-07-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）