A STUDY ON THE 4A TOURISM AREA (SPOTS) IN CHINA: SPATIAL CHARACTERS AND INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION
研究中国4A级旅游景区的空间集聚特征及其与区域经济和城市发展的关系，发现景区数量与产业规模正相关，并指出景区面临游客压力，建议增加景区数量并开发娱乐休闲产品。
Regional tourism industrial development mostly placed reliance on the high - level tourism area, which has great guiding significance to study it. Commence from the space analysis, the characteristics of agglomeration of 4A tourism area (spots) is found, which coupled with the development of regional economic and urban level greatly. The mathematical statistics method is used to measure the 4A tourism area (spots) and the industrial scale, the relation of positive relevancy between them is found, which reflects the regional difference of tourism industry. At last, the conclusion is summarized that the 4A tourism area (spots) provide the resource of regional tourism development, but which is burdening the pressure from the tourists. In order to separate the tourists and translate the industrial development model of relying on high - level tourism resource, on one hand the more 4A tourism area (spots) should be built, on the other hand, the new tourism products, such as entertainment products and recreational products, should be developed.