A Study on Difference of Tourism Competitiveness Based on Theil Coefficient in 12 Western Provinces

This article uses the entropy TOPSIS method to obtain the tourism competitiveness value of the 12 western provinces in 2008 and 2009, and reveals the western tourism competitiveness from the four aspects of tourism performance competitiveness, tourism potential competitiveness, tourism support competitiveness and tourism comprehensive competitiveness, and then makes system clustering operation using the tourism comprehensive competitiveness for reference standards. Then, this paper uses Theil coefficient method to make quantitative analysis from the tourism competitiveness overall differences, difference in level and difference between levels. It finds that: in 2008 and 2009 the tourism comprehensive competitiveness of Sichuan Province were 1.724 8 and 1.782 7, but the tourism comprehensive competitiveness in Xizang and Qinghai were only 0.578 9 and 0.905 4 respectively. Then the strength of tourism comprehensive competitiveness difference in 12 western provinces appeared polarization phenomenon; the total I(O)s of tourism potential competence respectively were 2.984 5,2.680 4 in 2008 and 2009 that were greater than the total I(O)s of tourism performance competitiveness and tourism support competitiveness, so the main factors influencing the tourism competitiveness difference was tourism potential competence in western. From 2008 to 2009, I(O)s of all indexes in total and layers had become smaller, such as the total and layer’s I(O) of tourism comprehensive competitiveness changed from 2.536 1 to 2.446 7 and from 2.533 3 to 2.445 4. It showed that the strength of tourism competitiveness difference had a weakening trend, and had the characteristics of centralized distribution.