基于层次与等级的城市旅游供给分析框架保继刚.pdfVIP

人文地理 2011年第6期总第122期 文章编号： （ ） 1003-2398 2011 06-0001-09 基于层次与等级的城市旅游供给分析框架 保继刚 梁增贤 ， 中山大学旅游发展与规划研究中心 广州510275 （ ， ） AN ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPLY-SIDE OF URBAN TOURISM BASED ON LEVELS AND HIERARCHIES BAO Ji-gang, LIANG Zeng-xian （Center for Tourism Planning ＆ Research, Sun Yat -Sen University , Guangzhou 510275, China） Abstract: Urban tourism is now an extremely important, world-wide form of tourism. Moreover, it has be- come a significant and distinctive research field in tourism geography and urban studies since the end of 1980s. This paper reviews research on the development and exploration of the nature of urban tourism, espe- cially focuses on analytical framework for urban tourism. Early analytical frameworks are weak in compara- tive study on urban tourism and take all the tourist cities as the same structure or function commonly; some even fails to identify the significant features of urban tourism. A levels and hierarchies analysis framework for supply-side of urban tourism which emphasizes the signification of both the levels (urban function and status, urban theme and unique feature, core elements of tourism) of supply-side in urban tourism and the hierarchies (big cities, medium cities and small cities) of tourist cities is developed in this paper. Suzhou, Guilin and Huangshan are chosen as case cities to apply and illustrate this new analytical framwork. The research shows that demand-side depends on supply-side of urban tourism. The variation of su