Tourist-Transport Center: A Platform of Integrating Tour Resources

Tourist-transport center (TTC), first emerged in 1998, has became an important service pattern for individual tourist in some areas of China. For its exclusiveness in a district and monopolizing the resource of individual tourist, TTC become the core travel organization locally. Through its monopolistic impact in one area, TTC provides a platform for other local travel organizations, such as travel agencies, resorts, hotels, restaurants and so on, to form a cooperation-competition mechanism between themselves. So, TTC, as a platform of integrating tour resources, enhanced the competitive power of regional tourism. In addition, the cooperation between TTCs helps to increase the levels of cooperation between the tourisms of different regions