Measuring Barriers of China's Inbound Tourism Trade in Services: For Instance between America.

This paper tries to evaluate the openness of Chinese tourism market toward foreign travelers. The way of approach is by examining the tourism services trade barriers. This paper includes a model of tourism services trade barrier, which is built based on Paasche index theory, with America's direct tourism output and GNI per capita chosen as its two variables. With this model, the degree of the openness of China's inbound tourism market towards foreign travelers can be quantified. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]