Ⅰ General Report
1 World Tourism City Development Index: Theoretic Framework and Index System/001
1. Connotation of “World Tourism City”/001
2. Establishment of World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF)/004
3. Birth of World Tourism City Development Index/005
2 Theoretic Framework/007
1. Theoretical Model /007
2. System of Indicators/008
3 Ranking and Analysis of World Tourism City Development Index/013
1. Selection of Cities/013
2. Overview of Evaluation Results of 2013 World Tourism City Development
Index/013
3. Comparison and Analysis on Key Tourism Cities This Year /015
4. Analysis of Tourism Cities with Special Features/020
Ⅱ Reports on Specific Index
4 Report on Tourism Prosperity Index/023
1. Rankings and Interpretation: Asia, Europe, and The Americas are
The Top Three, and Asia Accounts for Half of the Share /023
2. Factors Determining Tourism Prosperity Index of Cities/033
5 Report on Tourism Development Potential Index/038
1. Rankings and Interpretation: Asia-Pacific has Good Performance with
Large Development Potential/038
2. Factors Determining Tourism Development Potential Index/045
6 Report on Tourism Attraction Index/049
1. Rankings and Interpretation: Cities are Cross-distributed with Small
Agglomerations, and Comprehensive Cities have Outstanding Advantages/049
2. Factors Determining Tourism Attraction Index/055
7 Report on Support for Tourism Index/073
1. Rankings and Interpretation/073
2. Factors Determining Support for Tourism Index/080
8 Report on Network Popularity Index/084
1. Rankings and Interpretation/084
2. Rankings of Chinese Cities and Analysis/091
Ⅲ Regional Reports
9 Report on Tourism Cities in the Asian-Pacific Region/096
1. General Analysis: Ranking in Medium Level Globally with Differences
among Indexes/096
2. Tourism Prosperity Index: High overall Ranking with Hong Kong, Macao
and Singapore as The Top 3/097
3. Tourism Development Potential Index: Great Potential Represented
by Chinese Cities/100
4. Attraction Index: Weak Attraction Drags on Composite Index/104
5. Support for Tourism Index: at Medium Level with Tourism-oriented
approach The Strongest Impetus/108
6. Network Popularity Index: Medium-level with Australian Cities
in The Limelight/113
10 Report on Tourism Cities in Europe/116
1. General Analysis: at Upper Medium Level with Outstanding Attraction
Index/116
2. Tourism Prosperity Index: at Medium-level Featured with Polarity/116
3. Tourism Development Potential Index: Major Cities Outstand,
and Airline Passenger Throughput has a Bearing on Ranking/119
4. Tourism Attraction Index: Excellent overall Performance/123
5. Support for Tourism Index: at Upper Medium Level with Balance
Performance within the Region/127
6. Network Popularity : There are Both Winners and Losers/131
11 Report on Tourism Cities in the American Region/133
1. General Analysis: at Upper Medium Level with Great Disparities
in Various Indexes/133
2. Tourism Prosperity Index: at Medium Level with The United States
as the Lead/133
3. Tourism Development Potential Index: Disadvantaged, but American
Cities Stand out/136
4. Tourism Attraction Index: Taking The Middle Place Globally/139
5. Support for Tourism Index: Higher than Other Continents/141
6. Network Popularity Index: Ranking at Upper Medium Level Globally/144
12 Report on Tourism Cities in Middle East and Africa/146
1. General Analysis: Low Overall Level with Imbalanced Sub-indexes/146
2. Tourism Prosperity Index: Large Gap with Other Regions, yet with
Stable Growth /146
3. Tourism Development Potential Index: at Low level Distributed
in Different Ranking Brackets/148
4. Tourism Attraction Index: Weak Attraction with Much room of Enhancement/150
5. Support for Tourism Index: Overall Strength with Disadvantageous
Multilingualism/152
6. Network Popularity : at Medium Level with Stable Growth/155
13 Summary/157
This book includes theoretic studies, specific index studies, regional studies, case studies and monographic studies. It makes a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the tourism city world-wide. It analyzes five sub-indexes’ ranking situation and explanatory indicators respectively. This is the highlight of this report, which evaluates the advantages、disadvantages and features of the regional tourism in the world, and chooses seven representative cities around the world as the important research contents and provides countermeasures and suggestions for the development of tourism cities from different perspectives, such as the economic development of world tourism、government management and urban planning and so on.