A Comparable Study On The Spatial Distribution Character Of Rural Tourism In China And Japan

Japanese rural tourism developed rapidly in 1990s, and now Japan has become one of the countries with the most mature rural tourism and the largest share of the national tourism industry in the world. Meanwhile, with the fast development of Chinese tourism industry, rural tourism in China is booming all over the country, and has achieved good results and shown broad development prospects. Therefore, the developments of rural tourism in China and Japan have effectively promoted the overall strength of the tourism industry, as well the development of rural economy and rural society.On the basis of analyzing the spatial structure of domestic and abroad rural tourism, this paper selected Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan and Ningbo City, in Zhejiang Province of China as the study case. By means of the quantitative analysis method for the aggregation effect of rural resources such as the adjacent village resources index R, accessibility to the network, network connectivity, average path length, etc., and in combination with Japanese and Chinese rural tourism space structure factors, such as natural conditions, regional conditions, rural tourism point of the type and traffic situation, etc., this paper discussed and compared the differences and similarities of the rural tourism spatial structure between China and Japan. This paper also concluded the similarities and differences of configuration features for the rural tourism spatial structures of two countries, and analyzed the reason for the formation of differences. Taking examples from spatial structure distribution of Japanese rural tourism, optimized views for the development of rural tourism spatial structure in China were put forward. This paper further described research methods and paradigms of the rural tourism spatial structure in Japan, and introduced new methods and ideas for the study of rural tourism spatial structure in China. Accordingly, it should raise further comments and consideration for rural tourism and the tourism research in China.