System analysis model for core attractiveness of tourist city

Attractiveness is very important to tourist city and knowing what is the most attractive factor in tourist city is the key to improve the tourist city competitiveness. This paper analyzes the complex system problem of how to identify the core attractiveness of tourist city, defining the index of core attractive factor of tourist city from the point of view of economics and strategic management by the method of system analysis and pointing out that the index of the core attractiveness of tourist city has the characters of durability and uniqueness. On the basis of this, we development the system analysis model identifying the core attractiveness by improving the method of ELECTRE I (elimination et choice translating reality). A case study on a city in China is given to illustrate the availability of the proposed model.