Differences of Tourism Economy and Spatial Structure Construction of Tourism in Shandong Province

In this paper,the units of 17 cities were focused on,indexes including the weighted coefficient of variation,Gini coefficient,Theil index was figured out to analyze the spatial and temporal evolution of tourism economy of Shandong Province from 2000 to 2007 as well as the differences of tourism economy.The spatial structure of Two-core,two-band and four-areas for tourism was constructed,and the initiatives were put forward for this spatial structure of Shandong tourism.The study showed that: there is obvious yet narrowing spatial inequality in the development of tourism economy of Shandong Province;the regional differences of international tourism is greater than that in domestic tourism;three major regions in Shandong show obviously different characteristics.Initiatives based on the study are:accelerating the development of Qingdao and Jinan as they are two major tourist cities,building the Golden Coast and mountain sage tourism development zone,building the spatial structure of 4 Great tourist area including the Grand Canal and the Water Margin culture,Yimeng red cultural and ecological tourism area,the Yellow River Delta ecological tourism,cultural tourism of Qi.The methods above are contributive to achieving the balanced and coordinated development of three major regional tourism economy and enhancing the overall competitive level of tourism industry.