A STUDY ON TOUR TIME PLANNING OF DOMESTIC SIGHTSEEING TRAVEL ITINERARIES
LI Shan1, WANG Hui1, WANG Zheng1,2
1. Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;
2. Policy and Management Institute, CAS, Beijing 100080, China
Abstract：Travel itinerary, which is important for destination development and tourism marketing, is a major kind of products of travel agencies. Tour time, as a joint name for travel time and visiting time, is a significant factor for itinerary design. Through statistical analysis on the data of itineraries (taking Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou as origins) got from the internet, we find that there is a logarithmic relationship between tour time and O-D (origin-destination) distance. In detail, the relationship between the travel time (T0, all the time spent in a trip, unit:day) and the straight distance (D1, the spherical distance from an origin to a destination, unit:kilometer) can be presented by the regression equation:T0=-4.5769+1.3161ln(D1). In addition, the relationship between the visiting time (T1, the time spent in a destination, unit:day) and the straight distance can be presented by the regression equation:T1=-4.2188+1.1220ln(D1).
Furthermore, we find that the number of scenic spots which are arranged to be visited each day in the itineraries is averagely 5 and it will reduce at first and then increase with the distance increasing; with the travel distance increasing, the traffic way will alternate from road to railway and then to airline; and there is a linear relationship between the price presented in the itineraries and the travel distance.
李山, 王慧, 王铮. 中国国内观光旅游线路设计中的游时研究[J]. 人文地理, 2005, 20(2): 51-56.
LI Shan, WANG Hui, WANG Zheng. A STUDY ON TOUR TIME PLANNING OF DOMESTIC SIGHTSEEING TRAVEL ITINERARIES. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2005, 20(2): 51-56.
