Study Of Xi’an Historical And Cultural Tourism Spatial Structure Based On GIS

Xi’an is one of the cities with the earliest tourism development in China. Tourism and especially the inbound tourism has become the city card of Xi’an. With the development of economy and society, people’s diversified and personalized demands for tourism continue to increase. As a large tourism city which is rich in historical and cultural resources, Xi’an also reached the golden period of tourism development. But we can obtain that it is not very ideal from the tourism performance of Xi’an. According to 2014 Forbes "the most developed tourism cities list in mainland China", Xi’an only ranked in 15 th place. Inbound tourist arrivals, the number of domestic tourists, tourism foreign exchange earnings and domestic tourism revenue ranked in respectively 24 th, 10 th, 19 th and 18 th place. These indices have dropped out of the top 10 and continue to decline. The formation of this phenomenon is the result of comprehensive effects, but the tourism spatial structure should bear this main responsibility. The cultural tourism resources account for 96.9 percent of total quantities of tourism resources. The tourism resources of buildings, monuments and cultural activities account for absolute advantages. The city image of "The Chinese ancient capital" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, the author believes that the Xi’an tourism development should be based on the city historical and cultural tourism brands, and build from the city’s unique history and culture, so as to promote the tourism industry to develop firmly.In this paper, the researches progress in the full study of the domestic and international tourism spatial structure. Firstly, it determines the basic concepts, reviews the basic theory, and analyzes the components and core elements of the tourism spatial structure, so as to establish the structure and the main part of this paper. Secondly, use GIS spatial analysis method to conduct the clustering analysis and spatial clustering analysis of Xi’an historical and cultural tourism resources structure, the analysis of geographical concentration index and attractions of tourism market structure, the α, β, γ analysis and accessibility analysis based on different conditions. Then we can get out that the spatial distribution of tourism resources in Xi’an is an agglomeration type, the positive effect of neighbors is obvious, market attractiveness and the attraction of the tourist market is dispersive, and the density of traffic network and the degree of cooperation of tourism resources is not high. Finally, combining with the optimization theory and principle, it puts forward the designs of the development of tourism products, the ideas of space distribution, the directions and measures of the adjustment of the tourist source market structure, the optimizations of infrastructure, so as to form a comprehensive optimization scheme of historical and cultural tourism spatial structure of Xi’an. It can provide technical supports for the improvement of historical and cultural tourism system and promote the development of the tourism industry of Xi’an.