The Resource-based Competitiveness Of Tourist Space Formation Mechanism Study

The tourist competitiveness of cities with tourist resources has been much researched in recent years, which study has reached the stage of paradigm and is developing rapidly, and the improvement of tourist competitiveness has become a practical issue facing China's many tourist cities. This thesis, taking some of the tourist attractions in heritage tourist city of Xi'an as an example, explores the improvement of tourist competitiveness from the perspective of spatial competition. It attempts to address the issues of spatial integration and differentiation among city's own tourist attractions for more reasonable spatial distribution, so as to improve the competitiveness of tourist cities.Adopting the "Free-rider" model and "Spatial Competition-Cooperation" model, the thesis explores the influencing factors and formative mechanism of the spatial strategies for improving the spatial competitiveness of tourist attractions, uses factual examples to interpret the models, and finally, through the survey of tourist attractions in Xi'an, proposes actual measures for implementing these spatial strategies. The thesis is composed of eight chapters as follows:The following conclusion is generated through the research:(1) In unbalanced spatial competition, the competitiveness improvement of tourist attractions is determined by the efficiency of "Free-rider". In other words, in this kind of competition, the "Free-riding" actions vary according to the heterogeneity of resources: the more heterogeneous in resources, the easier for "Free-riding" and vice verse. In the meantime, the homogeneous resources competition easily leads to the mononuclear structure, while the heterogeneous resources competition easily leads to the dual-nuclear or multi-nuclear structure in regional spatial distribution.(2) In balanced spatial competition, the optimized recombination is much easier to be realized between heterogeneous tourist resources, to present a "win-win" situation for mutual improvement of tourist competitiveness.The innovation of this study lies in that it, adopting a non-traditional new perspective, discusses the spatial competition of homogeneous and heterogeneous tourist attractions through the unbalanced "Free-rider" model and the balanced "Competition-Cooperation" model, and explores the improvement of tourist attractions based on the spatial strategy, bringing the discussion of tourist competitiveness back to the regional and spatial background. In addition, the models used in this study have innovative significance for discussion spatial strategies.This thesis is an attempt in the theory and practice of the spatial strategies in improving the tourist cities' competitiveness, and is supposed to be of significance for tourist cities of the similar type.