Spatial Spillover Effect of Zhangjiajie on Changde Tourism Development
Wang Yahui,
Peng Baofa,
Zhao Di
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2019
Pages:
1-9
Received:
11 September 2019
Accepted:
17 October 2019
Published:
29 October 2019
Abstract: In an open economic system, tourism space spillover effect can be seen everywhere. Many cities have achieved rapid development by virtue of tourism space spillover effect. However, experience shows that the realization of this effect requires several conditions. As one of the tourism development space, the development of city tourism economy, not only depend on its tourism resources, tourism facilities reception ability, degree of opening to the outside world and city traffic accessibility, usually by its neighbor city tourism resource endowment, economic distance with high tourism resources endowment neighbor city,and so on. Both Zhangjiajie, world natural heritage site and Changde, a famous historical and cultural city and an excellent tourist city in China, was selected as the research object, and time series data on tourism development from 1993 to 2017 were used to empirically test the existence of spatial spillover effect of Zhangjiajie on the tourism development of Changde, a neighboring city of Zhangjiajie, Research shows that: Zhangjiajie has no tourism space spillover effect on its neighboring city(Changde) at least at present. In the development of inbound tourism in Changde, there is no diversion of Zhangjiajie’s foreign tourists to Changde. The reasons mainly include two aspects: The inconvenient traffic in Zhangjiajie and Changde objectively hinders the diversion of tourists from Zhangjiajie to Changde; relatively low tourism resource endowment in Changde, as well as the dislocation in the selection of core tourism products are subjectively difficult to attract Zhangjiajie’s foreign tourists. Finally, According to the research conclusion, some suggestions are put forward for Changde to develop inbound tourism with the help of space spillover effect.
Abstract: In an open economic system, tourism space spillover effect can be seen everywhere. Many cities have achieved rapid development by virtue of tourism space spillover effect. However, experience shows that the realization of this effect requires several conditions. As one of the tourism development space, the development of city tourism economy, not o...
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