边境旅游是在具有特殊区位和文化环境的边境地区开展的旅游活动,是国际旅游的重要形式之一。本文选取2000-2009年中国陆地边境省州市相关统计数据,采用入境旅游市场占有率、旅游资源丰度、旅游开放度、边境贸易比重和距离指数5个重要指标,应用矩阵分析方法,在对我国三个省区边境旅游发展及客流演化态势进行比较的基础上,对边境入境旅游及其影响因素进行深入分析,结果发现:旅游资源丰度、区位条件、经贸发展水平、开放度、可进入性等因素是影响边境旅游规模和类型的主要影响因素,现阶段我国边境省区各州市的边境旅游发展受贸易驱动明显,旅游资源丰度对边境旅游中的观光入境旅游者有较大影响,边境旅游也遵循距离衰减规律。在此基础上提出对我国边境旅游发展的启示,以期为沿边省区发展边境入境旅游提供科学依据和参考。

Border tourism is a tourism activity that is being carried out in special border area and cultural environment, and one of the important forms of international tourism. Based on the relevant statistical data of Chinese land border and neighboring provinces from 2000 to 2009 and the comparison of border tourism development and tourists evolution trend, this paper took an in-depth analysis on border inbound tourism and its influencing factors by using the five indicators of market share of inbound tourism, tourism resource abundance, tourism openness, cross-border trade proportion and distance. The results show that: tourism resource abundance, geographic conditions, economic development level, openness, accessibility and etc. are the main factors of influencing the size and type of border tourism. The border tourism development in China's border provinces and regions recently has been driven significantly by trade. Tourism resource abundance has great impact on inbound tourists,and border tourism also follows the attenuation.Border tourism in three typical border provinces and regions can be subdivided into trade-driven type, tourist-driven type and shopping and sightseeing type according to the driving factors. Tourism resource abundance has greater impact on inbound tourists of border tourism, especially in some of the traditional tourist destinations such as Xishuangbanna, but less impact on other areas.