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| ANALYSIS OF DISPARITY OF INBOUND TOURISM RANK AND SCALE AND ITS INFLUENCING FACTORS FOR CITIES IN HEBEI PROVINCE |
| TANG Cheng-cai1,2, SONG Chang-yao1, LI Xin-jian1 |
1. School of Tourism Management, Beijing International Studies University, Beijing 100024, China;
2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China |
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Abstract Under the background of downward pressure of the inbound tourism and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration process to speed up, this research focusing on inbound tourism in Hebei province helps to strengthen the regional inbound tourism economic development of our country and to promote the Beijing-TianjinHebei comprehensive strategic synergy. The paper measures the disparity of scale of inbound tourism in Hebei province on the basis of inbound tourism data in Hebei province in from 2008 to 2013 by using Standard Deviation, Coefficient of Variation, Gini coefficient and First Degree Index and using the rank-scale rule to analyze the rank-scale distribution of inbound tourism in Hebei province and using the method of correlation coefficient, the multivariate linear regression method to explore the factors influencing the regional differences of inbound tourism in Hebei province. The study found that, (1) an absolute different scale of inbound tourism in Hebei province rises from 190580.8 in 2008 to 365432.5 in 2012 to 338631.6 in 2013. (2) Gini coefficient and First Degrees show that inbound tourism in Hebei province are concentrated. Rank-scale theory suggests that inbound tourism scale is the first type distribution in Hebei province, but concentration index q from 1.726 in 2008 to 1.53 in 2013, suggesting a more narrowing gap between cities in Hebei province. (3) Hebei province can be divided into Ji-northeast, Ji-northwest and Ji-southeast three big tourist areas on the basis of the scale and proximity of region. (4) The main factors influencing the regional difference of inbound tourism in Hebei province is the abundance of tourism resources and geographical conditions.
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2014, Vol. 29 
