Comparative Analysis and Thinking on the Development of Tourist Trade in West China

摘要

This paper first discussed the importance of the western tourist trade for the country's strategy of developing the western areas of China. According to some economic indexes, for example, the international tourism exchange income, and the cluster diagram of 31 provinces of the whole country resulted from the cluster analysis showed that there were some common characteristics in the development of western tourist trade, and then, the cluster of 12 western provinces was further subdivided to find the distinct characteristics among them. Through the real feeling of travel to Gansu as well as some other western provinces, a new product of tourism in Gansu was designed (for the young people). At last, this paper put forward some constructive proposals for the development of the western tourist trade.