Research On Tourism Economy Regional Disparities And Its Influencing Factors Of Urban Agglomeration In The Middle Reaches Of The Yangtze River

Tourism economy regional disparity research is one important branch of tourism economic research. To a certain extent,tourism economic regional disparity of different regions shows unbalance due to the diversity of resource endowments, tourism transport accessibility, the level of service and economic development and industrial policy, cultural background, consumption habits, and many other factors. Until the end of2012, tourism revenue of urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River had reached888.36billion yuan, accounting for35%of the national tourism revenues. With the rapid development of overall tourism economy, tourism economy regional disparity has become increasingly prominent:the highest tourism revenue had reached139.6billion yuan in Wuhan, while the lowest income Qianjiang only400million yuan, and the former is349times of the latter. Therefore, it is significant to analyze tourism economic regional disparity and its causes, which are important to develop the tourism resources tationally, narrow the gap of the regional tourism economy and promote the coordinated development of the regional.Taking37cities of urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River as the research objects, this article analyzed the tourism economy regional disparities from the perspective of time and space evolution, the conclusions are as follows:(1)From2003to2012, the absolute disparity of tourism economy expanded rapidly, and the relative disparity falled with fluctuation; Inter-regional disparity and intra-regional disparity was falling slowly all the time, and intra-regional disparitiy was the main contributor to the regional disparity of tourism economy.(2)The spatial evolution pattern of urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in terms of the level of tourism economy development and development speed in2003,2006,2009and2012showed:There is largely difference between the economic development level and development speed from place to place, and central cities showed high level of tourism economy development and faster development speed, on the other hand, the other showed the opposite characteristics.(3)According to the results of Principal Component Analysis to tourism economy indicators and spatial visualization of urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in2003,2006,2009and2012showed:Tourism economy polarized obviously of urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the level of tourism economy was low to most cities; The number of poles of tourism economy growth has increased, but its radiation and leading role needs to be strengthened; The tourism economy more developed region showed to concentrate to northeast.(4)The factors of tourism economy regional disparity included resource endowments, tourism transport accessibility, the level of service and economic development and industrial policy etc. Under the function of these factors, urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River showed the large regional disparity.