How to develop Taiwans tourism nation brand

Globalization and the intensification of economic competition are increasing demand for nation brands. Tourism has a significant association with nation brand for the rapidly growing tourism industry in the future. A good nation brand will help a country's economic growth by promoting the tourism industry. In this study, Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Maximum Mean De-Entropy (MMDE) are adopted to analyze the factors of tourism as they relate to branding Taiwan. The results show that the ‘festival’ is the most important fact for Taiwan nation brand in perspective of tourism.   Key words: Nation brand, tourism, decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL), maximum mean de-entropy (MMDE), Taiwan.