旅游业驱动的区域航空网络时空演化特征

Abstract

Tourism correlates strongly with aviation industry, the development of regional aviation network is influenced greatly by the scale and distribution of tourist flow. In order to obtain the temporal-spatial evolution characteristics of regional aviation network driven by tourism, this article using social network analysis, take Yunnan province as an example, by means of the network indicators, such as degree centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, central potential, network density, etc. The results showed as follows: (1) Aviation network of Yunnan province has already formed on Kunming as tourist collecting and distributing service centre, and hub-and-spoke network of radiation to the feeder airport in the area. (2) The level of connectivity and network coverage of Yunnan aviation network shows the tendency of increase year by year. (3) The level of development of tourism resources basically consistent well with airport layout in Yunnan province, and tourist flow has become an important factor to affect the layout of the new airport. This research showed that: the structure of regional aviation network is affected by tourism resources, the routes density between major tourist cities is higher, and the accessibility between major tourist cities is better. Tourist flows that caused by differences of tourism development level has a positive impact on airport layout and construction, airline transport volume on routes, the number of flights, route linking, and then further influencing of spatial pattern of regional aviation network.