Spatial distribution characters and influencing factors of rural leisure tourism demonstration sites in Guangxi

【Objective】 To study the spatial distribution features including types, concentration ratio and equilibrium ratio of rural leisure tourism demonstration sites in Guangxi, and the main factors which would be influence on the spatial distribution of rural leisure tourism demonstrated sites. It would provide the theoretical guidance and references for promoting the integration of rural leisure tourism resources and the optimization of industrial development layout.【Method】 In this paper, 335 rural leisure tourism demonstrated sites in Guangxi(hereinafter referred to as demonstrated sites) were selected as the research objects. The spatial distribution characteristics of the demonstrated sites were analyzed by some methods such like the nearest neighbor index, voronoi diagram and the coefficient of variation, geographical concentration index, kernel density and so on. The influence factors of the spatial distribution have been researched by the buffer analysis, the neighborhood analysis, the correlational analysis and the grey correlational analysis.【Result】 The spatial distribution of the whole demonstrated sites had presented clustered characteristic obviously. However, its cluster degree was not high as a whole. The spatial distribution characteristics of demonstrated sites was different in different cities. The demonstrated sites in eleven prefectural-level cities were clustered. The demonstrated sites in other prefectural-level cities were evenly distributed. The demonstrated sites were in uneven distribution and presented the features which had three levels, four areas and multi-centers. Yulin was the first-degree centre and belonged to high density district. Guilin, Nanning, Beihai, southeastern Baise were the sencond-degree centre and belonged to mid-high density district. Fangchenggang, eastern Hechi, northeastern Guigang, northeastern Qinzhou were third-degree centre and belonged to median density district. Wuzhou, Liuzhou, Hezhou and Chongzuo did not form cluster centers obviously and belonged to low density district. It showed that the influence degrees of the factors on demonstrated sites spatial distribution were different. The spatial distribution of the demonstrated sites correlated with the terrain and water system, the land transport, the travel market strongly and significantly.They were the most important influence factors. The correlation between the agricultural development, the tourism development, and the spatial distribution of demonstrated sites was less strong. They were the second important influence factors.The correlation between economy, population and spatial distribution of demonstrated sites was small. They were the third important influence factors.【Suggestion】 Strengthening the construction of transportation networks and optimizing the layout of traffic networks in order to improve traffic accessibility and enhance the attractiveness of tourist destinations. Optimizing the spatial planning and layout and integrating regional advantageous tourism resources in order to promote the regional linkage agglomeration development of rural leisure tourism. Exploiting the landscape resources such as the terrain and landform, water system, vegetation and climate, and excavating the contents and characteristics of national culture, rural culture and farming culture, in order to set up the regional different product system of rural leisure tourism.