Research On Domestic Touirsts’ Spatial Behavior Of Metropolitan Area Based On Tourist Routes

The core issues of this paper are domestic tourists’ spatial behavior patterns andrules of metropolitan area. On the basis of summarizing relevant research onmetropolitan area and tourists’ spatial behavior, we conclude the main researchcontent and methods of this article. We select the Zhujiang River Delta metropolitanarea and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area as typical cases, which belong tothe most developed areas of tourism in China. Take the all national top100travelagencies of the main domestic tourist source markets from2009to2011as thestatistical objects, during the period from January to February and May to June in2013, we respectively downloaded agencies’ itineraries from the official websitesinvolved each city of the Zhujiang River Delta metropolitan area and theBeijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area. Supplemented by statistics form thegovernment authorities, utilizing such methods as statistical analysis, comparativeanalysis and CorelDraw graphics technology, the paper describes a detailed study ofthe tourists’ spatial behavior patterns and the urban destination types of the ZhujiangRiver Delta metropolitan area and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area.Besides, compare this two areas with the Yangtze River Delta metropolitan area ontourists’ spatial behavior, finally put forward the corresponding countermeasures foroptimization and promotion.The full text can be divided into three parts:The first part introduces the research background, research significance, methods,technical route, related concepts, main theories and so on. In addition, the relatedresearch progresses at home and abroad are systematically collated and summarized.This part lays a solid foundation for further study.The second part respectively analysizes the tourists’ spatial behavior of theZhujiang River Delta metropolitan area and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitanarea in detail, and makes a systematic comparison between China’s three metropolitanareas. The following is the main content:Firstly, we make a further analysis on the tourists’ spatial behavior of theZhujiang River Delta metropolitan area. It is found that base-camp pattern and fullloop pattern are the main spatial behavior patterns as a whole. Different touristmarkets show different spatial behavior patterns. Tourists from Guangdong provincemainly choose single destination pattern and Hong Kong-Macao loop pattern, whiletourists from the remaining markets mostly use other travel modes, such as base-camppattern, en-route pattern, regional tour pattern and full loop pattern. There is a bigdifference in the occurrence frequency of each city in itineraries, and it presents athree-level hierarchical relationship. The type of different cities in itineraries isdifferent between the Great and the Small Zhujiang River Delta metropolitan area, aswell as among the different markets. According to this, the spatial behavior pattern figure of tourists from each market is obtained. Then a comparison about the spatialbehavior patterns is made between the Great and the Small Zhujiang River Deltametropolitan area. We thus conclude that Hong Kong, Macao together with theZhujiang River Delta region have gradually become a closely connected overall intourism development, however, there still need time to realize tourism integration forthis three places.Secondly, by using the same research method, we obtain the tourists’ spatialbehavior rule of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area. Base-camp pattern is themain spatial behavior pattern, the proportion of single destination pattern, full looppattern, en-route pattern and regional tour pattern orderly reduce. Medium and remotesource market mostly select base-camp pattern, while tourists from inner metropolitanarea mainly choose single destination pattern. Also, there is a big difference in theoccurrence frequency of each city in itineraries as the Zhujiang River Deltametropolitan area, and it presents a four-level hierarchical relationship. The role andtype of each city is different. Comparing tourists’ spatial behavior between eachsource market, we conclude that tourist routes choosed by source market inside andoutside metropolitan area are complementary. To tourists from regions outsidemetropolitan area, resource endowment, traffic facilities as well as spatial distancehave a close impact on node city selection in tourist route. Cities of theBeijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area present a core-periphery spatial structure. Infact, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan tourism circle is the Beijing capitaltourism circle. Moreover, cities have a hierarchical corresponding relationship withsource markets.Finally, compared with the existing research on the Yangtze River Deltametropolitan area, we can draw a conclusion that there are some differences ontourists’ spatial behavior between the three metropolitan areas. Remote-distancetourists of the Zhujiang River Delta metropolitan area and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebeimetropolitan area tend to choose base-camp pattern, it’s different from the YangtzeRiver Delta metropolitan area, which large-scale full loop pattern is the main pattern.The three areas respectively take Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong as its core city, allcities showing a certain hierarchical relationship. According to similarities anddifferences about domestic tourists’ spatial behavior between the three areas, wediscuss the spatial behavior influential factors from demand, supply and support threeaspects, then put forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions forpromotion based on the different characteristics of the three areas.The third part summarizes the paper’s main conclusions and views, and pointsout the shortages and some problems that need further research.