The RCA index comparison of five countries: The analysis of potential impact upon Chinese tourism export and e-tourism services´ trade

The level of China´s tourism and tourist e-commerce is pretty low. Based on the current situation, more advanced network of tourism and tourist e-commerce experiences of developed countries must be learned and put forward into the processes. The data are collected for many years of five countries, which are China, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and then compared and analyzed by Revealed Comparative Advantage index (RAC). The results provide an in-depth understanding into the tourism and tourist e-commerce of China. The outstanding qualities of countries with developed tourism are listed as follows: authority travel e-commerce websites, government supports, the coordinates of related businesses, unified management etc. Finally, we submit the criteria based on the best of Chinese tourism and tourist e-commerce that matches the essential development needs of Chinese tourist e-commerce. This result can be interpreted as a method to evaluate and supervise the Chinese Network of Tourism, and a prototype of Chinese tourist e-commerce tracking system our researching in future.