以西北五省区为研究对象,采用位序法对各省旅游资源禀赋进行分析,陕西、甘肃、新疆的旅游资源总丰度居于前三位。在此基础上,选取1998年~2006年各省的旅游总收入、国内生产总值、总人口为指标,分别对五省区的旅游经济总体变化、地区间旅游经济差距和旅游业在各省产业地位的变化进行研究,表明西北五省区旅游经济存在绝对差异扩大、相对差异缓慢下降的趋势;五省区地区间旅游经济差距逐渐减小而各省区旅游业的地位在逐渐上升。 Taking the five provinces of northwestern China as the research object, the tourism resource endowment of each province was analyzed by the method of ordination. The total abundance of tourism resources in Shaanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang was in the top three. On this basis, the author chooses the total tourism revenue, GDP and total population of each province from 1998 to 2006 as the indicators, and respectively analyzes the overall changes of tourism economy in five provinces and autonomous regions, the tourism economic gap between regions and the industrial status of tourism in all provinces The results show that there are absolute differences in tourism economy between the five provinces and regions in Northwest China and the relative differences are slowly decreasing. The gap between the tourism economy in the five provinces and autonomous regions gradually decreases and the status of tourism in all provinces and autonomous regions is gradually rising.