Yin Chang Feng
Hefei University, Hefei City, Anhui, 230601, China
ABSTRACT
This study make use of the methods and models including the index of Competitive State and the index of the Familiarity Degree to practice quantitative analysis on the inbound tourism market of Jiangsu Province in 2001-2012. The findings are most inbound tourism source markets are with low unfamiliarity degree or strong unfamiliarity degree. The inter-annual variability of the familiarity degree of inbound tourism source markets shows three concurrent trends of high-position oscillation, middle-position volatility and low-position steady coexistence, with significant disparities among source markets; competitive state of the tourist source markets mainly concentrates in Skinny-Dog Market and Children Market. These indicate there are considerable spatial disparities among the inbound tourism source markets of Jiangsu Province it is necessary to carry out further strengthened development and study on the tourism source markets of the Jiangsu province in order to further improve the development of inbound tourism and realize its goal to build a competitive tourism in Jiangsu province.
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Yin Chang Feng, 2013. An Empirical Study on the Dynamic Changes in Inbound Tourism Source Markets
Based on Familiarity Degree and Competitive State. Journal of Applied Sciences, 13: 3724-3729.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.3724.3729
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.3724.3729
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.3724.3729
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.3724.3729