The Study On Spatial Structure Of Vacation Tourism In Qingdao

With enhancement of living standards and increasing of leisure time, vacation traveling has become an important part of tourism activities and living pattern. as a Seaside city, Qingdao boasts of abundant tourism resources for holiday-makers. But the development of vacation tourism has been restricted in downtown areas of Jiaozhou Bay and Huiquan Bay. Tourism development of other seafront area and inland area lags behind. Consolidate resort tourism resources and reconstruct the overall resort spatial structure is very important for implementation of tourism development strategy. It is also helpful for seeking competitive advantage of regional tourism development, regional tourism feature and development direction, optimize functional coordination of tourism space. This thesis attempted to analyze influential factors of resort spatial development in Qingdao, then to construct the circle-layer structure of Qingdao's vacation tourism.The whole paper consists of five chapters.The first chapter introduced the background and importance of this study and fundamental thoery including research objective, framework and methods, literature review.The second chapter studied into the basic concepts and thoery of city tourism spatial structure. Through review of present literature on tourism destination spatial structure model, component factors of city tourism spatial structure was summarized, and the envolement patter of city tourism spatial structure was also proposed. The circle-layer pattern was suggested as the mature stage of city tourism development. Finally, related problems were analyzed on development of city tourism in a circle-layer way.In the third chapter primary influencial factors of resort tourism spatial structure in Qingdao were analyzed on the basis of conception of resort tourism.Influential factors include resort tourism resources and conditions, economic development level, resort tourists behavior charactors and spatial feature, the status quuo and charater of tourist market.The fourth chapter studied into the circle-layer structure of Qingdao's vacation t tourism. Different circles are grouped as central seaside city resort layer, medium-layered island spring resort tourism and distant tourism layer of health, leisure and other purposed traveling.The last chapter summarized the conclusion of the overall study and further study in the future.