Evaluation on Regional Disparity of Tourism Economy in China Based on Spatial Analysis

The method of exploratory spatial data analysis,including global and local spatial autocorrelation analysis,has been adopted,and the data of tourism economy in 31 provinces in 2007 has been employed in this paper.The paper analyzed the provincial tourism economic disparities in China.The result showed that:(1)the areas that has the similar characteristics in tourism economic development concentrated in space,and the result of regional tourism economy correlated positively with each other has showed that existence of disparities in provincial tourism economic;(2)the spatial association model of provincial tourism economy has been divided into four types:diffusion effect areas(H-H),polarization effect areas(H-L),transition areas(L-H)and low growth areas(L-L);(3)tourism resource endowments were positively related to the development of tourism economy,however,the tourism resource endowments is not the only factor that make contributions to the growth of tourism economy.Finally,based on the findings,the paper put forward the policies that promote coordination development of regional tourism industry.