The Research On The Spatial Differences Of Inboundtourism Economy And Driving Factors In China

It has been more than 30 years since China carried out reform and opening-up policy. The development of the tourism industry is much better and becomes one of the fastest growing industries in national economy. However, with the rapid growth of tourism economy, the development disparity among different regions of China gradually has formed. It seriously affects the healthy development of the tourism industry. In this paper, we take 31 provinces in China as the research units, using the tourist foreign exchange earning and the number of tourist reception as the measures. The thesis studied on the application of the standard deviation, the gini coefficient, the geographic concentration index, multivariate linear model method and qualitative and quantitative research methods. Based on these research methods, we investigate the relationship between inbound tourism economic and the number of tourist reception. Finally, we reveal the characteristics of inbound tourist market and analyze driving factors of the inbound tourism.Firstly, the paper analyzes the disparities of inbound tourism economy and discusses the characteristic of inbound tourism economy from time to space. The results are as following: The tourism economic development level differs bigger in eastern and western regions. The absolute differences of inbound tourism economy in China increase while relative differences decrease. Secondly, the paper analyzes the relationship between inbound tourism economy and the number of reception. Inbound tourism economy is positively correlation with the correlation, stability and the long-term equilibrium. Thirdly, the paper analyzes the characteristics of the inbound tourism source markets. The results are as following: The core markets of inbound tourism in China are Korea, Japan, Russia and US. The space of inbound tourism market mainly gathers in the children market and thin-dog market and distribution in the star market and bull market is less. There are many factors that can influence the development of tourism. Finally, this article mainly analyzes the present situation from the level of economic development, traffic development, external economic development, education development, service industry development and tourism infrastructure conditions. The study found the influence of the driving factors on the inbound tourism from strong to weak are education development, traffic development, economic development, tourism infrastructure conditions, service industry development and foreign economic development.