Abstract:
Vigorously developing tourism industry is one of the important ways to promote the economy transformation of resource-based areas. Based on the theoretical model of the driving mechanism of tourism economic growth constructed in resource-based area, the driving mechanism of tourism economic growth in Shanxi province was quantitatively analyzed by combining the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with the entropy weight grey relational analysis method, then relative countermeasures were put forward to cultivate the new driving force of its tourism economic growth. The results showed that: it had played an important role in the tourism economic growth of Shanxi province that the growth of demand scale and production factors input. There were increasing trends that the actions of pulling mechanism of demand factors and guarantee mechanism of supporting factors, which to the tourism economic growth in Shanxi province, while the actions of pushing mechanism of supply factors and the stimulating mechanism of intermediary factors have been declining. It was declining that the driving action of the tourism system as a whole on tourism economic growth of Shanxi province, which was the fundamental reason for the decline in the growth rate of tourism economy. In the future, the measures should be taken to cultivate the new kinetic energy of tourism economic growth of Shanxi province, which including leading the upgrading of tourism demand, promoting the upgrading of factors allocation, optimizing the tourism development environment etc.
