Spatial Analysis of Regional Distribution of Tourism Industry and Tourism-Related Disciplines: A Case Study of Guangdong Province

Abstract

With the rapid development of China's tourism industry, the problem of slow development of the educational system for cultivating tourism talents gradually surfaces. And also needs to be urgently tackled is the problem of the asynchronous development of tourism industry and tourism-related disciplines formation in institutes of higher education in different regions. Deploying Principal Component Analysis Method (PCA) and Sudoku Model and by constructing assessment and indicator systems for evaluating the development of both tourism industry and tourism-related disciplines formation, the article tries to evaluate the spatial consistency of the development of tourism industry and tourism-related disciplines formation in institutes of higher education in different regions within Guangdong Province. Conclusions are reached after intent investigation that Pearl River Delta Region sees well-coordinated development of tourism industry and tourism-related disciplines formation in its local institutes of higher education, Northern and Eastern Guangdong Regions find relatively slow development of the industry and disciplines formation, and Western Guangdong Region lags behind in the whole Guangdong Province in the development of both tourism industry and tourism-related disciplines formation in its local institutes of higher education. Optimization strategies are thus proposed that "improvements shall be made in inter-city interaction in Pearl River Delta Region in the development of tourism industry and tourism-related disciplines formation, the standard of tourism-related disciplines formation shall be well raised in Northern and Eastern Guangdong Regions and also a series of tourism-related disciplines to be established in institutes of higher learning in Western Guandgong Region ".

Keywords: Tourism Industry; Tourism-Related Disciplines; Spatial Distribution; Principal Component Analysis; Sudoku Model