Spatial-Temporal Pattern Evolution of Inbound Tourism Economic Differences in Chinese Coastal Regions
This paper employs Coefficient Variance (CV),Theil index and gravity centre model to measure and contrast regional tourism differences in Chinese coastal regions at three different spatial scales,i.e.region,province and prefecture from 1996 to 2011.CV and Theil index are used to explore the changing trends of regional inequalities and it is found that regional tourism inequalities in the three scales have a fluctuated narrowing trend,and indicate at the smaller spatial scale,the inequality of regional tourism economy is the greater,and within-regional inequality in more obvious that of between-region and between-province inequality.The gravity centre model is used to analyze the general moving trend of tourism economic gravity center,which is from south to north,from Pearl River Delta to Yangtze River Delta.The agglomeration characteristics of tourism economy in Chinese coastal regions is still obvious,however,inbound tourism revenue declines in the proportion of the major developed regions,which implies the agglomeration characteristics is being weakening by dispersed trend.At last,the paper puts forward some countermeasures that reduce tourism economical difference of coastal regions and coordinate the development of regional tourism economy.
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