Tourism Agglomeration Difference and Dynamic Change of China's Top Ten Urban Agglomeration

This research focuses on the tourism agglomeration of china's top ten urban agglomeration and their dynamic change. First, the paper determines the scope of this research by summarizing previous studies and divides the city hierarchy of urban agglomeration based on PCA and TOPSIS. Next, in the perspective of urban agglomeration and cities inside, the paper uses Location Quotient (LQ) and Coefficient of Variation (CV) to investigate agglomeration difference and dynamic change of tourism industry from 2002 to 2011.The conclusions are that spatial inequality of the tourism agglomeration among top ten urban agglomeration is remarkable, but the difference decrease as time going on. In the dimension of the city, central city or cities of urban agglomeration tend to have higher level of tourism agglomeration. However, the comparative advantage of center city is spreading to the peripheral city.