Regional economic development and the choice of tourism mode

• Published in: UTMS journal of economics Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 13 - 28
• Main Authors: Duan, Litao, Jin, Jun, Lu, Chaonan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Skopje University of Tourism and Management 01.09.2020
• Subjects: Area planning & development; Consumption; Culture; Economic development; Local government; number of scenic spots; region-wide tourism; revenue; Sharing economy; Society; threshold; ticket economy; Tourism; Tourism development; China
• ISSN: 1857-6982; 1857-6974; 1857-6982

Tourism has become an important part of regional economic development and the choice of tourism mode has been an important factor affecting the development of tourism. From the perspective of revenue maximization, this paper constructs a selection model of ticket economy model and region-wide tourism model. Each tourist area has a threshold value of scenic spots. When the number of scenic spots exceeds the threshold value, it is more beneficial for regional development to choose the region-wide tourism mode; conversely, it is more beneficial for economic development to choose the ticket economy mode. Among the factors affecting the threshold value, there is a negative correlation between the threshold value and tourists' consumption in the scenic spot, the incremental effect of tourists brought by the cancellation of tickets, the distance between the scenic spot and the tourist source, the distance between scenic spots within the region and the diversity index of scenic spot business items. There is a positive correlation between ticket revenue, traffic conditions between tourist areas and tourist sources, traffic conditions in tourist areas and the level of scenic spots in the region.