The Contribution of Tourism Development to Boosting National Consumption in 10 years of Fujian
The paper adopts the tourism consumption trend rate, structure index, status index, consumption flexibility and analyzes the change of Fujian tourism consumption structure and its contribution to boosting the national consumption by using 1997 2008 survey data. Results show that per capita spending and structure indices of domestic and inbound tourism are increasing,and travel industry in Fujian gradually matures. The proportion of the tourist lodging, meal and travel shopping, etc. in whole society accommodation, catering, wholesale and retail trade, etc. is increasing. The elastic coefficient is more than one, which explains that tourism consumption growth is faster than national consumption.
tourism consumptionstructure index i status indexconsumption elasticFujian province