The Temporal-spatial Difference and Convergence of Tourism Economy in ZheJiang Province

Using coefficient of variation and Gini coefficient, this paper measures difference of tourism economy in Zhejiang Province through structural and regional decomposition, then uses convergence theory of economic growth to check the existence of convergence. The results show that total tourism economic difference tends to reduce gradually. The tourism economic difference features are as follow: It is mainly contributed by domestic tourism in structure, but difference of inbound tourism is higher than that of domestic tourism. While it is mainly contributed by the inter-regional difference, and the inter-regional difference is greater than difference within the region. Convergence test shows that tourism economy in Zhejiang Province is converging, that is, per capita output of regional tourism will converge to the same steady-state level in the long-term. Meanwhile, a-convergence and absolute beta-convergence have been identified, but there is no club convergence, meaning that polarization phenomenon does not exist.