Spatial Characteristics And Influencing Factors Of Provincial Tourism Develop-Ment In China

With the deepening of economic globalization and regional economic integration,tourism has gradually become an important comprehensive industry in China's economy.Depending on their own resource advantages,China's provinces vigorously promote the development of tourism,making the tourism market prosperous in an all-round way.However,there is still a big gap in the development level of tourism in various regions of China.The eastern coastal areas have been developed economically for a long time,with convenient transportation and rapid development of tourism.The western region is not at a high level of economic development,tourism resources are relatively scarce,and the development of tourism is relatively slow.Therefore,it is of great practical significance to study the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of tourism development in China's provinces to promote the rapid and sustained growth of tourism economy and narrow the regional differences of tourism economic development.Firstly,this paper constructs development level evaluation index system of provincial tourism industry from two aspects:market performance and tourism resources and facilities.Secondly,combined with entropy weight method and TOPSIS method,the tourism development level of 31 provinces and cities in China from 2006 to 2016 is evaluated.Then,the spatial autocorrelation test is used to explore the spatial distribution characteristics of provincial tourism development in China.Finally,through the construction of spatial panel data model,this paper studies the influencing factors of provincial tourism development in China from the aspects of economic development level,openness,population density and tourism resources endowment,and puts forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions.The results show that there is significant spatial autocorrelation in the development of provincial tourism in China.Most of the provinces with high level of tourism development are located in the eastern coastal areas,while the level of tourism development in the western areas is generally low,and the regional characteristics of high-high and low-low agglomeration are obvious.From the regional perspective,compared with the central and Western regions,the eastern region has obvious advantages in tourism development level.The central Hunan and Western Sichuan tourism development level is higher than other central and Western regions.The development level of tourism in Shanxi and Jilin is lower than that in most central and Western regions.All in all,the development level of provincial tourism in China shows that the eastern region has absolute advantages,and the central region is higher than the western region.In addition,the spatial panel data model shows that the level of economic development,openness,tourism resources endowment,transportation convenience and Internet penetration have a significant positive impact on the development of tourism.