The structure and its evolution of inbound tourism size is a dynamic complicated process, which is the significant composition of the development of regional tourism system. Based on the investigation on application of size distribution model, this paper analyzes the features and evolution of size distribution and its interior structure of inbound tourism in China using data of local inbound tourism population from 1999 to 2008. The results indicate that the coefficient of size distribution obtained from the data sample of the same threshold size are incomparable between the different years and the ones of the same region are comparable due to the influence of the changes of size descending. The size distribution type of inbound tourism in China and the Three Zones belongs to transition distribution from 1999 to 2008, and changes to rank-size distribution type when arriving at some threshold size. Furthermore, the concentration of size distribution is the main feature on the different spatial levels, but the degree of the concentration has been descending, and the changes of interior structure is consistent to the fact that the dispersive force of size distribution is stronger than concentrated one from 1999 to 2008. On the other hand, the size distribution of inbound tourism changes from concentration to dispersal along with the increasing of threshold size. The study on the regional disparity suggests that the concentration of size distribution of the East Zone is the strongest and the one of the Middle Zone is the weakest, but the decline of the degree of concentration is the fastest in the Middle Zone and is the slowest in the West Zone. At last, the changes and their types of the provincial size distribution indicate that the primate rate of size distribution is increased in the provinces with lower rate of size growth, while the primate rate is descended in the provinces with higher rate of size growth.
CHEN Gang-qiang, LI Ying-hui, LIU Juan
. Evolution of size distribution of inbound tourism in China[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2011
, 30(6)
: 1044
-1054
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DOI: 10.11821/yj2011060008
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