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Evaluation of Tourism Developing Level of Yangtze Delta Cities Basing on Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis and Clustering Analysis
Shandong Provincial Research Center of Landscape Demonstration Engineering Technology for Urban and Rural, Tai’an, China
Shandong Urban Construction Vocational College, Jinan, China
College of Forestry, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China
Shandong Provincial Research Center of Landscape Demonstration Engineering Technology for Urban and Rural, Tai’an, China
Shandong Provincial Research Center of Landscape Demonstration Engineering Technology for Urban and Rural, Tai’an, China
- 1 Shandong Provincial Research Center of Landscape Demonstration Engineering Technology for Urban and Rural, Tai’an, China
- 2 Shandong Urban Construction Vocational College, Jinan, China
- 3 College of Forestry, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China
- 4 Shandong Provincial Research Center of Landscape Demonstration Engineering Technology for Urban and Rural, Tai’an, China
- 5 Shandong Provincial Research Center of Landscape Demonstration Engineering Technology for Urban and Rural, Tai’an, China
Current Urban Studies·Volume 09 (2021)·Pages 31–39·Published 15 January 2021·DOI10.4236/cus.2021.91003
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Abstract
Tourism data of 26 cities in the Yangtze River Delta of 2017 are summarized and counted. Method of Analytic Hierarchy Process is used to construct a three-level indicator system, including three secondary indicators such as scale of the tourism industry, number of tourists and tourism income and a number of three-level indicators. And then weight of each indicator is determined, the original data are standardized, and tourism development level score of each city is calculated. Finally, 26 cities are divided into 5 types by cluster analysis and characteristics of each type of cities are analyzed and evaluated .
KeywordsYangtze Delta CitiesTourism Development LevelAnalytic Hierarchy ProcessCluster Analysis
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