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| RESEARCH ON THE INDUSTRY MECHANISM IN THE FORMING OF URBAN TOURISM SPATIAL STUCTURE IN YANGTZE RIVER DELTA——In the View of Tourism Enterprise Spatial Location Selection |
| BIAN Xian-hong1,2, SHA Run2 |
1. Department of Tourism, Institute of Commerce, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi 214122, China;
2. Geographic Science College, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China |
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Abstract Because tourism resources can't be transferred and there exists a spatial disparity among them, the spatial location selection behaviors of tourist zone are confined to these characteristics. However, the spatial location selection behaviors of tourism enterprise in tourist attraction agglomeration areas, not only have some effects on its survival and development, but also the holistic development level of the regional tourism in this tourist attraction agglomeration area. Therefore, researches on the industry mechanism in the forming of tourism spatial structure need seek breaches from tourist enterprise' spatial location selection behaviors. Tourism enterprise spatial location selection behaviors have key effects on the forming of tourism spatial structure.This paper discovers that tourist hotels and tourist zones highly agglomerate in the urban tourism spatial agglomeration areas in the cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi and Hangzhou. Urban tourism corporations' location selection behaviors are determined by urban tourism market demand, tourism resource gift, tourism investment demand, tourism agglomeration & scale economy achieved, policy orientation of urban tourism development, and spatial distribution of urban tourism infrastructure establishment, etc. Besides, urban tourism corporations prefer to locate at tourism spatial convergence areas as well as urban tourism development axis.Seeking the minimization of cost location strongly pulls tourism corporation transfer from central tourism cities to peripheral tourist cities in Yangtze River Delta. It's a key impetus for the behavior of tourism corporations' spatial location selection to realize the aim of urban tourism spatial integrative development and congruity development between the tourism central cities and the tourism peripheral cities. It's the game between two factors as fixed costs and tourist receptions for tourism corporations to select the location in urban central tourism districts or peripheral districts. It's such factors that the degree of agglomeration economy or diseconomy achieved and land-using cost in tourism agglomeration areas or non-agglomerative areas for tourism corporations to determine location in urban tourism spatial agglomeration areas or non-agglomeration areas.
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Received: 05 April 2007
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2008, Vol. 23 
