A Case Study On Spatial And Temporal Disparity Of The Tourism Economy Development In Hubei Province

Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the Chinese economy is continuous growing and living standard of the inhabitants in China is continuous to improve. At the same time, tourist industry is to become gradually the pillar industry of economy development. However, imbalance of tourism regional economy is increasingly obvious caused by regional economic strength, infrastructures, and tourist resources and industrial policy. Thus, the study on the disparity of regional tourism economy is of great significance for sustainable development of regional tourism industry.The present study aims to analyze the disparity of regional tourism economy form the aspect of time evolution and space structure, with17cities of Hubei Province as research subjects. When analyzing the time evolution of regional tourism economy from2001to2010, the study tries to measure the evolution of relative disparity by using the extreme difference and standard deviation and regular pattern of evolution by using extreme value and variation coefficient, choosing domestic tourism income and international tourism income as index. At the same time, when analyzing space structure of tourism economy in Hubei, the study adopts principal component analytical method to analyze the space distribution of2010through constructing index system. Finally the results suggest that both the relative disparity and absolute disparity of regional tourism economy in Hubei from2001to2010are enlarging gradually. Specifically, at the aspect of space distribution, the development of tourism economy in Hubei can be divided into5levels. Wuhan is the first, and Yichang and Enshi are the second. In addition, the third level includes Shiyan, Shennongjialin area, Xianyang, and Xiangyang cities. Yingzhou, Huangshi, Huanggang, Jingmen, Xiaogan, and Suizhou cities belong to the fourth level. The last level includes Xiantao, Tianmen, and Qianjiang cities.Finally, this article analyzes the reasons of regional difference of tourism economy in Hubei province and then puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions by discussing the influencing factors including the tourism resources, regional traffic conditions, tourism infrastructure and service level, economic background and industry policy environment and so on.