Evolution of the gravity center and spatial differentiation among the provinces of the inbound tourism industry in China
ZHAO An-zhou1, BAI Kai1，2*, WEI Hai-yan1
(1 College of Tourism and Environment, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi′an 710062, Shaanxi, China; 2 Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871,China)
Abstract:
The gravity model, spatial statistical techniques and GIS technology were used to analyze spatial movement of gravity center and spatial differentiation among the provinces about the inbound tourism industry from 1995 to 2009.The results showed:(1) Inbound tourism gravity center of China moves to the southeast in 1995—2000, and it moves to the northeast in 2000—2009;(2) From the global spatial variation，the development level of inbound tourism in different provinces is positive correlated in spatial，the high-value provinces adjacent to other high ones, low-value provinces adjacent to the low ones；(3) From the local Moran,the international tourism revenue of the provinces exists the correlation and heterogeneity in spatial, the level of inbound tourism industry in eastern coastal provinces is better than that in the western provinces.
KeyWords:
spatial differentiation; China; the gravity center model; ESDA; GIS
