Abstract:
To reveal the ternary relation of administrative hierarchy, city scale and tourism development, the endogenous relationship model of administrative levels, city scale and tourism development, and two-dimensional evolution model of urban size-tourism growth were proposed. Taking 25 cities in the Yangtze River delta area as an example, using statistical data from 1994 to 2014, combined with the theory model and measurement model, the relation and evolution of city scale and domestic tourism development in the Yangtze River delta were studied. The results showed that the higher administrative levels, urban scale index and the response coefficient is higher and the greater the domestic tourism development level is relatively high in the Yangtze river delta. Under the background of city administrative level, the scale of urban comprehensive index gradient structure is obvious, capital and above cities in this area will accelerate deflection tendency degrees by the government tendency. In the process of the evolution of two-dimensional, municipality directly under the central government, deputy provincial city, provincial capital city are generally distributed in the Ⅰ quadrant area, urban general distribution with the prefecture level and below are distributed in Ⅲ quadrant area.There is a transition and evolution relationship for the distribution of the city in four basic quadrant along with the time factor.
