A most efficient way to harmonize the relationship between tourism development and resource protection of the scenic area is to establish a scenic resource assignment system on the premise of the governmental regulation in which market allocation is a basic institution. However, such institutional factors as ideological restraint, absence of proprietor, low efficiency of running system and imperfection of legal system have reduced the efficiency of market allocation of scenic resources. Therefore, the governmental administration should be enhanced, the proprietor to scenic resource defined, an...