Temporal-Spatial Pattern Of Tourist Market For The World Heritage

It is known to all that the world heritage attract a lot of researches from diverse disciplines due to their outstanding universal value. Because a large number of world heritages are appealing to more and more visitors, the tourism study on the world heritage has great signality.This thesis gives some detailed literature reviews on the world heritage research, world heritage tourism research and tourism market research at first. We can draw some conclusions that: (1)it is not very common to see the visitor market research on the world heritage in the academic study currently, (2)most visitor market researches are based on the traditional marketing discipline to analyze visitor characteristic such as their age, gender, occupation, tourism motivation and behavior. Our study is different from the traditional tourist market research. We take Jiuzhaigou, a famous world heritage, as an example, and study it's market composing, pattern, temporal change and spatial character from the perspective of temporal-spatial analysis.This research adopt Jiuzhaigou digital system and traditional visitor survey to gather datum for the first time. The author establishes related database, do statistic, mathematic, and spatial analysis to the datum, and studies the market basic characteristic such as their age, gender, occupation, tourism spending, motivation, behavior and satisfaction. The writer specially focuses on the temporal-spatial pattern of Jiuzhaigou tourist market under the time-space framework. the author draws some conclusions as follow:(1)The market of Jiuzhaigou has been experiencing an exponential increase in 20 years. The seasonal change of tourist is obvious, the form of seasonal change transform from"2-peaked type"to"3-peaked type"but the gross fluctuate degree declines slowly;(2)The tourism market has obviously primate market distribution just like primate city distribution. Market area increase slowly, and the mean radius of...