A STUDY ON THE SPATIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF PROVINCIAL DIFFERENCE OF TOURISM ECONOMY
以中国31个省份为研究单元，用外汇收入衡量区域旅游经济差异，分析了1990-2002年省际旅游经济差异的总体状况和空间结构特征，揭示了区域旅游经济与旅游产业地位的空间变化，并提出了缩小差异、协调发展的对策。
The unbalanced development of regional tourism economy is a universal social and economic phenomenon. The paper from angle of regional economics, taking 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in mainland China as regional study unit, and foreign exchange earnings as total index to measure regional economic difference, analyzes overall situation and space structure characteristic of the difference of provincial tourism economy in 1990-2002, announces the spatial variation between regional tourism economy and tourism industrial status, interprets the main factor of influencing the tourist economic space difference. At last, the paper puts forward some countermeasures that reduce regional difference of tourism economy and coordinate the development of regional tourism industry.