Author(s):
Zhong Zhangqi* - Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China
Li Shan - Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University, Ministry of Education, Shanghai , China
Wang Zheng - Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University,Ministry of Education,Shanghai ,China;Institute of Policy and Management,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing ,China
Liu Huating - Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China;
Abstract:
The research on the spatial differentiation of tourism industry is an important content not only in the field of tourism geography but also the field of human geography, which has since received widespread attention in the academic circles. However, the previous research not only ignore the impact of the culture on tourism development but also fail to identify the driving factor differences under the different developmental stages of tourism industry. Hence, based on the Agent-based Simulation method , this paper constructs the simulation model of tourists behavior, then analyses the spatial differentiation of tourism industry in china driven by tourism resources, tourism market and culture respectively. The result shows that tourism resources is the basal factor of the spatial differentiation of Chinese tourism industry at the early stage of tourism development, but along with the economic development, tourism market gradually has a major impact on tourism industry in china. Due to the inertia effect of tourism resources and tourism market, the influences of culture seems to be just appeared. Studies also show that the chinese tourism development presents prominently a accumulative phenomenon, especially the most developed tourism areas are located in the eastern china and regional central city.
