The Spatial Distribution of Tourism in China: Trends and Impacts

Wen, Julie Jie; Sinha, Corazon

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“…This means that China's uneven regional development is accelerated by tourism development. From a dynamic perspective, Wen and Sinha (2009) use the Gini coefficient method and find that both the spatial distribution of international tourism demand and tourism supply exhibit a decreasing trend. They argue that this phenomenon is promising in relation to narrowing China's severe regional disparity among coastal and inland regions.…”

Section: Tourism and Regional Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The spatial local model used in this study, a developed conditional convergence model, takes account of the regional development level by incorporating the spatial heterogeneity. In addition, this study employs both the conditional convergence model and Gini coefficient analysis (Wen & Tisdell, 1996;Wen & Sinha, 2009) in order to well consider the importance of general regional development level in the convergence phenomenon. In China, high regional inequality is most evident among the three economic areasthe eastern, central and western regions-in terms of real GDP per capita (as shown in Figure 1).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In China, there are huge regional gaps that reflect gradual reductions in development levels from eastern to western regions and from coastal to inland regions in terms of the real GDP per capita and per capita consumption expenditures of the Chinese provinces (Wen & Sinha, 2009). This polarized development has become a serious threat to China's social stability, prompting other instances of inequality in areas such as medical and educational opportunities.…”

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“…First, less developed, rural areas tend to have abundant natural resources which serve as the basic and critical pull factor for tourists (Wen & Sinha, 2009;Wen & Tisdell, 1996). Second, tourism activities generate expenditure transferring among regions.…”

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Effect of Tourism on Balanced Regional Development: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis in Coastal and Inland China

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Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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This article aims to examine whether tourism can promote or hinder balanced regional development (BRD) in China. Unlike previous studies that mostly employ simple descriptive analysis, this study empirically analyzes the effects of tourism on BRD, especially on regional economic disparity within and between inland and coastal areas, by using the conditional convergence model of Barro and Sala-i-Martin. Results indicate that tourism development in China has a positive effect on BRD. Nevertheless, inland area (less developed region) has faster conditional convergence than coastal area (developed region) because of the tourism development. In addition, tourism has a stronger positive effect on economic growth in inland area than in coastal area, which denotes that tourism development can reduce regional inequality in China.

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“…21 often choked by the sheer number of visitors (Xu 1999, p. 209 and p.216;Pearce and Chen 2012, p. 399). Carrying capacities of protected areas may be similarly exceeded (Li 2004), and social tensions can arise from excessive concentration of tourism accommodation, income inequalities and the uneven distribution of tourism resources (Wen and Sinha 2009;Yang, Ryan and Zhang 2013), while residents in 'heritage' sites may become (or at least feel) marginalised (Guo and Sun 2016;Wang, Yang, Chen, Yang and Li 2010;Xu, Yan and Zhu 2013 …”

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Looking East but learning from the West? Mass Tourism and Emerging Nations

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2016

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Abstract:In the United Kingdom, domestic mass tourism began in the midnineteenth century during a period of peace and increased prosperity. It was facilitated by the railways, that enabled the rapid movement of people in bulk, and later by mass production of the motor car. Similarly, international mass tourism emerged in Europe and North America after the second World War, with stability, increasing prosperity, and advances in air transport. Similar socio-economic and political conditions led first to mass domestic tourism and then international tourism in Japan and China, and in both the state played an explicit and supportive part in tourism development. In all cases, mass tourism increasingly attracted academic attention, as seen most recently in the explosion of studies (in English and Chinese) of inbound and outbound Chinese tourism. There have been calls for a new 'paradigm' to analyse the development of Asian (most notably Chinese) tourism, which raise crucial questions as to whether or not 'science,' 'paradigms' and tourism studies can or should be tailored to study mass tourism because of its increased importance in East Asia.

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The Spatial Distribution of Tourism in China: Trends and Impacts

Cited by 43 publications

References 14 publications

Tourism and regional income inequality: Evidence from China

Tourism and regional income inequality: Evidence from China

Effect of Tourism on Balanced Regional Development: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis in Coastal and Inland China

Looking East but learning from the West? Mass Tourism and Emerging Nations

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