Guangzhou's bid for the 2010 Asian Games initiates the discussion on the impact of this event on the city's hotels. However, Guangzhou has hosted a periodical event for more than 50 years: the Canton Fair (China Import & Export Fair). This event, as well as other socioeconomic factors, has shown its impact on the spatial aggregation pattern which results in five cluster areas of hotels in the central city of Guangzhou. This research conducts a geographical and descriptively statistical comparison of the demands between the 2010 Asian Games and the Canton Fair. The main findings includes: 1) The spatial distribution of Guangzhou's hotels clearly demonstrates the impact of the Canton Fair. Hotels tend to aggregate around the exhibition centers of the Canton Fair or along the roads that have convenient communication with those centers; 2) However, the dynamics that results in the cluster areas should not only attribute to the Canton Fair, whilst some other factors like the attraction of the central business district (CBD) or the government's policy of land use also plays a important role; 3) The 2010 Asian Games brings with the restructuring of hotels, the diversity of operation modes, and the service quality enhancement, but it will not remarkably change the spatial aggregation pattern of Guangzhou's hotels mainly because it is a one-time event and the estimating tourists can be easily accommodated by existent rooms after some pointed improvement. What should be emphasized here is that the more appropriate strategy for Guangzhou's hotel development is to match the supply with the demand increment of periodic event like the Canton Fair but not with the seemingly attractive opportunity brought by the one-time event.
PENG Qing, ZHANG Xiao-ming, Zeng Guo-jun
. The Impacts of Canton Fair and Asian Games 2010 on the Spatial Pattern of Guangzhou's Hotels[J]. SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHICA SINICA, 2009
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DOI: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2009.02.154
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