International tourism marketing strategies: A study in China's Xinjiang minority areas

With the improvement of social progress and people's demand, tourism activity has gradually become a mass activity and an integral part of daily life. The ethnic minority areas which have rich characteristics of tourism resources and rich type of tourism products are becoming more and more attractive for customers, and they are gradually becoming the key areas in the development of tourism. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is located in the northwest of China which is in the hinterland of the Euroasian land with a borderline of more than 5600 kilometers, bordering with Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, India, and Afghanistan. It has been silk Road since ancient time. Because of globalization and advancing in technology, so world tourism repetitively increasing, as well as Xinjiang's tourism industries, but there are problems worth to think about that, XUAR needs to know how to use these tourism resources, seize the various development opportunities, and develop the tourism industry. Based on consideration of the problems above this article is studied in a perspective of international marketing. This thesis is divided into three parts altogether. The first part of the thesis is the basis, including chapter one and two. Mainly to introduce background of the selected topic, research significance and literature. Chapter 3 is the second part of this paper that draws the layout of the key concept of this study, including raising the questions, research significance, research objectives and putting forward hypothesis. In the third part, This is also the most important part of whole thesis. Analysis Xinjiang tourism market based on inbound tourist data and statistical models like inter-annual variation index, Shift-Share-Analysis, Principal component analysis and etc. Through all this research and analysis of Xinjiang international tourism market to determine measures to the future development of Xinjiang international tourism market. Keywords: International Marketing, Optimal Suggestions, Tourism in XUAR, Tourism Strategies.