Original Paper
ZHONG Xia,LIU Yihua
TROPICAL GEOGRAPHY.
2012, 32(5):
568-574.
This paper structures a set of indexes for tourism-economic-ecological system according to the data of tourism, economy and environment in Guangdong from 2001 to 2010, and analyzes the coupled coordination degree of the system among 21 cities in Guangdong Province with the help of SPSS and GIS softwares and by using principal component analysis and coupled coordination function modeling method in physics.The results show that the coupled coordination degree of those 21 cities was constantly improving, The average coupled coordination degree was 0.41 in 2001 and 0.54 in 2010. But there were many differences in development of tourism, economy and environment in different cities, the levels of the coupled coordination degree in the 21 cities existed some gaps, and those gaps had an expanding trend. In 2001, the coupled coordination degree of Guangzhou was 0.65 , Shenzhen 0.67,Jieyang 0.29, and Yunfu 0.33. In 2010, the coupled coordination degree of both Guangzhou and Shenzhen was 0.83, but that of Jieyang and Yunfu still very low. Inharmonious development would become the soft spot to improve the competitiveness of Guangdong and those cities in the future.