Quantitative study on the coordination of urban tourism and urban development:A case of Hangzhou

According to the definition of coordination between urban tourism and urban development,the paper built an evaluation index system covering six aspects,i.e.,urban economic growth,social development,public transportation construction,urban greening,environmental protection and tourism prosperity level.The method of Entropy Weighting TOPSIS was used in a case study of Hangzhou city with the sample period of 2001-2009.The results showed that the coordination coefficient of urban tourism and urban development in Hangzhou increased continuously.The highest value was 0.8043in 2009,which was classified as the most coordinated level.The lowest value was 0.2400in 2001.However,the improvement coefficient for each year did not tend to increase year by year.The research indicated that we should pay more attention to the coordination status induced from the existence deterioration risk due to the discontinuous growth of improvement coefficient.The policy recommendation includes that 1)the government could carry out the quantitative analysis of the coordination status developed in the paper for the better-off purpose of the coordination;2)once the tourism development strategy is made,the urban development capacity should be considered to promote their coordination;3)tourism development should be included in the urban development system to construct the coordinated development system,i.e.,the so-called"city tourism".