A study on the competitiveness of urban tourism destinations taking loudi city in hunan province for example

With the acceleration of urbanization and rapid development of tourism, the competitiveness of urban tourism destinations is gradually becoming a hot topic of research. Based on previous research results, this study established a system to evaluate the competitiveness of urban tourism destinations by Delphi Method and analytic hierarchy process. This system is composed of two major first-level indices, 17 second-level indices and 52 third-level indices. Besides, fundamental approaches were proposed in this study to determine the weight of indices, evaluate criteria and implement overall evaluation, in order to provide reference suggestion for the research of urban tourism destination competitiveness and the development of tourism cities. Empirically analyzing Loudi City, the tourism competitiveness is 5.02 which indicates the level of Loudi City tourism competitiveness is low. Based on the transverse comparison, with the help of radar map to analyze the internal structure of the tourism competitiveness of Loudi, provide decision reference for improving the tourism competitiveness of Loudi City. ©2013 Asian Network for Scientific Information.