| Tourism Flow is one of the significant issues in Modern Tourism Science research and tourist flow is also the important basis and premise of the development of tourism industry at destinations. Inbound tourism is a major channel for a country or an area to earn foreign exchange and resolve employment. The development status of inbound tourism is a major criterion for measuring the development of the country or an area's tourism economy, meanwhile, the important symbol for evaluating the internationalization and maturity of tourism industry. Study on the inbound tourist flow is mainly focused on the spatial and temporal characteristic and aggregation and diffusion laws but is seldom based on the destination's perspective of the relationship between inbound tourist flows and destination. This study bases on the perspective of supply and demand theory of economy, making in-depth and systematic analysis on the coupling coordination of the two systems by modeling inbound tourism flow drive and urban destination response from macro and micro levels, combined with statistical data quantization model and actual market survey. The research results will have theoretical and practical significance for tourism spatial structure study and for urban area to build a sustainable development of inbound tourism strategy, to optimize the structure of the tourism industry and to promote upgrading of inbound tourism products and services.This research relies on the National Natural Science Foundation Project of China (NO.40771058)] and Xi'an municipal government's key projects of "Revision of Xi'an Tourism Overall Planning". Based on statistics released by the official government and information from personal involvement of market survey data, this study makes in-depth and systematic analysis on the coupling relationship of inbound tourism flow drive and urban destination response, which is regarded as the research object, by choosing Xi'an as an example, by using SPSS, DPS software and by adapting coupling coordination quantitative model, Correlation analysis, gray correlation analysis and factor analysis etc. On that basis, by using Practice investigation, the author further analyzes tourists'Perceptual evaluation, and tries to verify the above results from the quantitative analysis.The core of this study includes the following points:(1) puts forward and build related concepts of inbound tourist flow drive and urban destinations response systems, and systematic analyze their influential factors. And then the author verifies and summarizes Xi'an tourist flow drive features and urban destinations response system on the basis of the theoretical foundation.(2) uses coupling coordination quantitative model and its mathematical analysis methods to analyze the development and changes of the two coupling systems of inbound tourism flow drive and urban destination response in Xi'an during the last decade, which reveals their characteristics and regularities between them, then analyzes and summarizes the results.(3) Based on the field surveys, this paper analyzes perception evaluation and motivations of Xi'an inbound tourists by using SPSS and DPS software and by adopting methods of correlation analysis, factor analysis, gray correlation analysis, and then the linkages between them is found. What's more important is that confirms the above results at present stage, which are based on the quantitative models of official statistics.The main work and conclusions are the followings:(1) The inbound tourist flows at destinations is a dominant performance, and also an external driving force for tourism supply of them. The inbound tourist flow drive system mainly focuses on its nonstructural elements which act as an external influential force on urban destination. The elements include inbound tourist arrivals, international tourism receipts, inbound tourists expenditures and stay of length. All these elements affect each other and interrelated.(2) The core of urban destination response system is the supply side study. The paper analyses relevant stakeholders that influence it and constructs urban destination response system and its conceptual model. It includes urban tourism environment, tourism facilities, tourism transportation and tourism service subsystems. At present, the research findings on urban destination response system are still rare. The supply side of urban destination should be concerned and the coordinated development of various subsystems of it should be strengthened.(3) There exists coupling coordination relationship between inbound tourism flow drive and urban destination response systems, and it changes all the time. Coordination of the relationship between these two systems has positive significance to the development of urban inbound tourism. Although the coupling coordination between Xi'an inbound tourist flow drive and urban destination response systems exists many fluctuations during the past ten years, the overall trend towards benign direction. At present, the coupling coordination between these two systems of Xi'an is at primary stage of coordination, but still not stable.(4) At present stage, the perceived evaluation of inbound tourists at Xi'an is "normal", the dissatisfaction relies on the air quality, cleanliness, hygiene, and the communication channels. The tourist motivation can be categorized as "experience and knowledge","prestige and respect","seeking stimulation ", and "escape and relax" Core of inbound tourist motivation and their evaluation research results confirms each other. Meanwhile, the inbound tourist perceived evaluation that based on market survey, and the coupling coordination that based on data model analyze tends to agree with each other at present stage, or say, the results of theoretical model analyze is verified by practice.This article attempts to make innovations in the following areas:(1) First, it is the research perspectives. By analyzing the coupling relationship between inbound tourism demand side and urban destination supply side to reveal and explore the interaction effects between inbound tourism development and the destination construction.(2) Proposed the inbound tourist flow drive and urban destination response systems and their conceptual model respectively. On the basis of previous studies, the author defines two coupling systems and their connotations, and further discusses the influencing factors and elements.(3) Research on the coupling relationship between inbound tourist flow drive and urban destination response from the macro and micro level. At the macro level, by using the statistical data of the government, the paper analyzes coupling coordination of the above mentioned systems, and summarizes the regularity and its general development trend as well. At the micro level, by using data collected by market survey, the author finds out inbound tourist perceived evaluation and tourist motivation of Xi'an by quantitative analysis, which gives prove to the statistical data analysis results in practice. |
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