The Analysis of "Tourism Economy of the Administrative Region" in Tourism Cities

Administrative division is a local distribution of rights and interests. Its rigid restraints on the development of tourism economy are called "Tourism Economy of the Administrative Region". The tourism economy of the administrative region in tourism cities can be manifested in many ways: the local governments of the places where tourism resources locate have no jurisdiction over the resources and their executive hierarchies are in chaos, which result in the administrative enclaves; the tourism regions span administrative boundaries, and the internal connections are divided by administrative regions, which lead to beggar-thy-neighbor in development; the names of the tourism cities have been improved by modifying their geographical names, which initiates a series of problems at the same time. The adjustments of administrative division result in the differentiation and re-combination of the tourism resources among tourism cities. The solutions are: the institutional innovation on administrative division; diluting the concept of administrative region and stressing the inherent relationship within tourism regions; establishing the inter-regional tourism cooperation areas and the corresponding jurisdiction or coordination bodies.