Spatial Distribution Features and Influence Factors of Rural Leisure Tourism Destinations in Shandong Province
With the development of urbanization and the improvement of living standard, the rural tourism has become more and more popular. The article constructs the classification system of rural leisure tourism destina-tions, and selects 104 representative rural leisure tourism destinations in Shandong Province as the research sample. The article explores the distribution pattern of rural leisure tourism destinations and studies the factors affecting the distribution of rural leisure tourism destinations by the methods of the nearest point index, geo-graphic concentration index, geographical connection rate, nuclear density and so on. The conclusions are as follows:1) There are 5 primary types of rural leisure tourism destinations in Shandong Province, respectively as follows:leisure tourism, farming experience, agricultural technology, rural culture and characteristic village, and 17 second-stage classes;2) The distribution type of rural leisure tourism destinations in Shandong Prov-ince is agglomeration on the geographic space;3) The species about leisure tourism and agricultural technolo-gy have a large number, and their layout is scattered, however, the rural culture and characteristic village tour-ist destinations have a high concentration. 4) The distribution of rural leisure tourism destinations are influ-enced by economic foundation, resource endowment, population density, traffic location and so forth. Econom-ic basis is the important condition of tourism activities, it can influence the spatial distribution of rural leisure tourism destinations and their evolution, different levels of economic regions have different types of rural lei-sure tourism destinations, for instance,the tourism destinations of farming experience class mainly distribute in developed and less developed areas, the scenic spots about agricultural technology and rural culture always distribute in middle-income region, characteristic villages mainly distribute in developed areas, the distribution of leisure tourism destinations have the characteristic of equilibrium. The development of rural leisure tourism destinations should strengthen the cooperation among different economic regions, in order to make their re-spective advantages complementary to each other. There are strong correlation between the distribution of rural leisure tourism destinations and the distribution of famous scenic spots. Once the rural leisure tourism destina-tions distribute around the edge of the scenic spots, they can take advantage of the scenic spots. The distribu-tion of rural leisure tourism destinations have a strong dependence on dense populated areas, leisure tourism is an obvious class. The distribution of rural leisure tourism destinations has great correlation with transportation network, and farming experience, rural culture and characteristic town show stronger dependence obviously. Purpose of this article is that giving the government of Shandong Province some reasonable advices in the con-struction of rural leisure tourism destinations. The rural leisure tourism destinations will play important roles in the process of building a new socialist rural and beautiful countryside in the near future.