Research On China 's Immigration Business Tourism Market

As a significant part of tourism industry, business tourism has being fast increased worldwide since in1980’.Chinese inbound business tourism has being developed rapidly when the policy of reform and opening to the outside world is further performed,and especially since China joined the WTO in2001, the trade cooperation with foreign countries and the force of introducing foreign capital are continuously increased,more and more foreigner coming to China to engaged in trade,invest,investgate and so on,so that brought great push to the Chinese business tourism market. According to the National Toursm Organization, on average, Chinese inbound business tourists accounts for24.19%in Chinese inbound tourism market during2001-2012, the highest proportion up to26.7%; In2001,2.9693million Chinese inbound business tourists have visited China; and the number is increased to6.2802million in2012.In2006,China overtook Japan as the Asia’ second-largest business toristm market.and is set to surpass the U.S for the top spot in2015,according to the prediction of Global Business Travel Association.This proves that the Chinese inbound business tourism market is an important part of the Chinese inbound tourism market,and has good outlook.At present,scholars think much more of business toursim research and obtain a lot of research achievements,but little of Chinese inbound business tourism market. Therefore,it has great realistic and theoretical significance to study this market thoroughly and carefully.The date from survey and the state-generated statistics.The state-generated including:the yearbook of China tourism statistics, the yearbook of China’s foreign trade and economic, the yearbook of China’s regional economic, the National Bureau of Statistics website and the National Tourism Bureau. Firstly, this study investigates the features of Chinese inbound business tourism market from the aspects of the characteristics on historical development, demographic structure, tourist behavior and the structure of tourist source market. Relevant indicators to analysis features in annual change index, seasonal index, geographic concentration, spatial clustering and BGG matrix. Secondly, the paper analyzes the structure of Chinese inbound business tourist flows network with the methodologies derived from the social network analysis. At the same time, this study explores the influence factors of Chinese inbound business tourism market. At last, the countermeasures of expanding Chinese inbound business tourism market are put forward. The thesis aims to provide some theoretical foundation on expanding Chinese inbound business tourism market.The conclusions of the research are:①Chinese inbound business tourism market has little change with the seasons, but has instability change with years, it is easily affected by domestic and international crisis. The Chinese inbound business tourists are young and middle aged male with high education, high incomes, high consumption and high revisit rate, the individual tourist accounts for a high percentage.②The volume of Chinese inbound business tourism source market is unbalanced. Asia has long been the main and stable source markets; South Korea, Japan, Russia and United States are the main source markets, they occupy the dominant position for a long time.③The geographical distribution and the spatial flow of the inbound business tourist flows on China are unbalanced. The concentrating distribution regions are:the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta. Chinese inbound business tourist flowing mainly around Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hongkong, Xi’an, Hangzhound and Suzhou. Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hongkong are the most important collecting and distributing centre, which followed by Hangzhou, Xi’an, Shenzhen and Chengdu.④The Chinese inbound business tourist flows network is a "core-periphery" network, the number of core region and periphery region follows the Pareto’s Law, and the core region including:Beijing, Xi’an,Guilin, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Hongkong, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu and Shenzhen,and the rest nodes are placed on the edge.⑤China’s foreign trade and the air transportation have important influence on the Chinese inbound business tourism market. The scale of the Chinese inbound business tourists is closely related to the scale of China’s foreign trade;The structure of the source countries is similar to the structure of China’s foreign trade partner;The spatial distribution pattern of the Chinese inbound tourist flows is similar to the spatial distribution pattern of China’s foreign trade; The scale of Chinese inbound tourism origin countries is closely to the aviation international network of China, The distribution and flowing of the Chinese inbound business tourist flows relies heavily on the domestic aviation network.Innovative points:①By social network analysis, the study first ascertain the structure of Chinese inbound business tourist flows network is "core-periphery", the number of core region and periphery region follows the Pareto’s Law.②By correlation methods and social network analysis, the study first analyzes the influential factors of the Chinese inbound business tourist market from the aspects of foreign trade and aviation network.