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| STUDY ON DIFFUSION MODEL AND DYNAMIC MECHANISM OF BEIJING INBOUND TOURISTS' FLOW |
| ZHANG You-yin1,2, GU Jing2, MA Yao-feng3, HUANG He-qing2 |
1. Institute of Regional Tourism Planning and Development, China Tourism Academy, Beijing 100005, China;
2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, State Key Lab of Resources and Environmental Information System, Beijing 100101, China;
3. College of Tourism and Environmental Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China |
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Abstract From the domestic diffusion point, affected by tourists' motivation and China tourism image, the main stream tourists who continue in the domestic flow to Shaanxi, Shanghai, Liaoning and Guangdong provinces, it presents to be oriented by resource and economy under the influence of physical distance. As to the second level diffusion of Beijing inbound tourists' flow, the paper chooses major cities in Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Xi'an, Chengdu-Chongqing and Yunnan, Guizhou and other typical tourist area to analyze. The results shows that after staying in the eastern coastal provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Liaoning, Guangdong and other, Beijing inbound tourists' flow mainly gathers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other core port cities, then is ready to exit. After staying in western Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces and cities, the tourists mainly flows to the provinces and cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other coastal ports. Overall, the second level diffusion of Beijing inbound tourists' flow shows a clear exit trend. From the proliferation dynamic mechanism for Beijing inbound tourists' flow, the overall subject to the effects of the internal driving force, thrust, pulling force and resistance, which the driving force is the most significantly. Combining with the tourists' personal characteristics, leisure time, discretionary income and other conditions, the paper determines that tourists' flow trend has a strong distance and time decay effect.
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Received: 15 December 2011
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2012, Vol. 27 
