QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DRIVING FACTORS OF TOURISM IN XINJ IANG
HE Zhao-li1, Hamid2, yimit1, WANG Song-mao3
1. Department of Tourism, Xinjiang University, Xinjiang, Urumqi 830047, China;
2. International Research Center for Sustainable Development in Arid and Semi-arid Land, Urumqi 830046, China;
3. School of Tourism and Leisure Management the University of Queensland Ipswich Campus, Ipswich 4305
Abstract：Along with rapid development of tourism, the research of the driving force of the regional tourism has become more and more important.The urgent request is to learn about the factors which impel the regional tourism development,and what are the main factors ? what is the relationship between the tourism income and these factors ?And how are the factors organized ?The driving factors vary as the different types of tourism regions,and even the same types of different regions,its driving factors importance vary.
Based on the system elements of Xinjiang Tourism development impetus, the authors did a pilot study of the driving factor systems of tourism development finding out the bottleneck of the development of Xinjiang tourism, establishing the tourism dynamic factors system of Xinjiang,studing the relations between these driving factors and tourism income and predicting which investments are more important in the future development of tourism in Xinjiang.
The Conclusions are drawn as follows. (1) The driving factors od tourism development of Xinjiang are: social economy, facility, talented person condition; tourism resources; port, and the open conditionof trade as well. (2) The international tourism income has the most remarkable relevance to the factors of social economy, facility, talented person condition.But the domestic tourism income has remarkable relevance with the four kinds of factors of social economy,facility, talented person condition and tourism resources; port and the open condition of trade. (3) Clustering situation reflects the development of Xinjiang's tourism is mainly in accordance with the socio-economic, human resources, tourism resources and location. Also, clustering is more in line with the development of tourism in Xinjiang actual situation. (4) The tourism resources and traffic condition affect the tourism development of Xinjiang,but the socio-economic, personnel and other factors played the greater role in it.
To sum up,the main feature of this paper is the quantitative analysis of the driving factors of the the regional tourism.the meanings of all the quantities are well investigated and sufficient examples are explored to support the model calculation. This paper is a remarkable progess in study of the driving force of the regional tourism.
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HE Zhao-li, Hamid, yimit, WANG Song-mao, DING Pei-yi. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DRIVING FACTORS OF TOURISM IN XINJ IANG. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2008, 23(3): 113-117,34.
