With the rapid development in economy, the tourism industry of China is also booming. Though there are more and more man-made attractions such as Themed Amusement Park, traditional attractions with natural beauty and/or historical sites are still within the most popular choices of tourists. In this article such kind of attractions are named resources-based attraction. Based on former study, the paper makes definition of resources-based attraction. Then it selects 509 resources-based attractions as research samples from 671 National AAAA Tourist Attractions, which were authorized by China National Tourism Administration in 2005. By means of GIS spatial analysis tools and some quantitative analysis methods such as NNI (Nearest Neighbor Index), GCI (Geographic Concentration Index), Gini Coefficient and Lorenz Curve, the paper analyses the spatial structure of 509 resources-based attractions and observes their distribution in 8 geographical regions and 31 provinces in China. The result shows that the value of NNI is as low as 0.57, which means the distribution of 509 resources-based attractions is a type of agglomeration. And the distribution of 509 resources-based attractions in 8 geographical and 31 provinces is asymmetric. According to the Lorenz Curve, more than half of 509 resources-based attractions concentrate in 9 provinces, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Changjiang River Delta, Beijing, Xi’an and Luoyang are the places with a high density of resources-based attractions.
XIE Zhi-hua, WU Bi-hu
. Tourism Spatial Structure of Resources-based Attractions in China[J]. SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHICA SINICA, 2008
, 28(6)
: 748
-753
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DOI: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2008.06.748
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