The Interprovincial Differences And Influencing Factors Of High-Star Hotels Distribution In China

In recent years, with the rapid development of national economy and a sharp rise of international status of China, domestic tourism and inbound tourism in China are obtained unprecedented prosperity. As one of the three pillars of tourism industry, hotel industry also ushers the period of high speed development. To a certain extent, high-star hotel industry as an important part of hotel industry can be regarded as the window industry of a region, which is a powerful guarantee for the devetopment of modern service industry. In the process of the high speed development of high-star hotels, it also appears some problems, such as the developers are blind to invest and construct high-star hotels, government makes inappropriate planning and so on. This article based on the macro perspective, tries to discuss spatial distribution and differences of high-star hotels at the interprovincial region level in China and to find out influential factors as well in order to provide theoretical basis for high-star hotels’ development in China and especially for decisions on spatial layout.This research based on the data of 1997-2012, analyzes the development of high-star hotels of China in the last decades, the interprovincial differences and centrality of high-star hotels distribution in China by coefficient of variation and the method of mean ratio, cumulative proportion and cluster analysis. Moreover, it also further analyzes the correlative and structural relationship between the number of high-star hotels in China and its influential factors with the method of correlation analysis and multiple linear regressionThe results show that, high-star hotels in China have a good momentum of development in the last decades and the growth rate is fast. The interprovincial distribution of high-star hotels during this period in China is very unbalanced and highly centralized, the provinces whose high-star hotels are developed concentrate in the few provinces or municipalities. Meanwhile, the highly centrality of provincial distribution of high-star hotels is weakening year by year. With the analysis of direct influential factors, it finds out that the level of economic development has the greatest impact on interprovincial distribution of high-star hotels, which is followed by the number of inbound tourists. With the analysis of indirect influential factors, the foreign trade has the greatest impact on the amount of high-star hotels, which is followed by the tourism product and traffic condition.