Guiding documents of the World Tourism Cities

Guiding documents of the World Tourism Cities

1 Goal and significanceWTCF is the first international tourism organization that unites tourism cities and develop

Release time : 2014-06-26 10:09:00

source : WTCF

positions, which makes certain indexes incomparable. It is also unsuitable to use merely one or several indexes to conduct a comparison. One type of quantified indexes, or the tourist questionnaire alone, cannot fully investigate the integrated strength of city development. A comprehensive and full-scale tourism city evaluation system is therefore needed.

3. The establishment of the evaluation system

3.1 The proposed “World Tourism City Development Index”

The World Tourism City Development Index is a comprehensive index used to evaluate the tourism cities' development. It can be adopted to evaluate and benchmark cities worldwide in terms of tourism development level and progress. Similar to other indexes, TCDI combines the tourism economic index, social index and other related indexes, revealing balance and unbalance between the tourism industry development and the social and economic development. Evaluation results would reflect the depths and scope of the tourism development in different cities.

The research team referred to the opinions of both domestic and foreign experts and some member cities in order to measure the tourism development, economic and social development, and the city development performance in the tourism cities. The team studied the well-known international rankings and finally constructed a three-pronged evaluation system that consisted of a, comprehensive index, a single index, and feature index. The system evaluates tourists, the tourism industry, and the city management.

The six single indexes include: the tourism prosperity index, tourism development potential index, tourism attraction index, support for tourism index, tourism satisfaction index, and the tourism awareness index. The tourism prospect index and the tourism development potential index evaluate the city tourism industry and the potential of the tourism related industries. They measure the current development and the development potential of the tourism