旅游中心城市相关概念辨析

Discussion and Analysis on the Relative Concepts of Tourist Central City

旅游中心城市概念源于旅游中心地,旅游中心地则是中心地理论在旅游业中的应用。通过对旅游中心地、旅游中心城市、旅游集散地、旅游目的地等概念的系统梳理与逻辑思辨,归纳出如下观点:旅游中心城市属于旅游中心地的一个种类,它以供给旅游服务为核心职能,旅游服务功能的中心性大小决定了其在区域旅游中的地位。在严格意义上,它不等同于中心城市,常表现为旅游集散地和旅游服务中心,但未必是游客的终极旅游目的地。旅游中心城市常将集旅游吸引中心和旅游服务中心两大功能于一体作为其理想发展目标。

The concept of tourism central city derives from tourism central place, while the concept of tourism central place de- rives from theory of central place. Through teasing the concepts of tourism central place, tourism central city, tourism collecting and distributing place and tourist destination, it concludes that tourism central city belongs to a type of tourism central place. Its core function is providing tourism service. The centrality of tourism service decides the position of city in regional tourism. Strictly, tourism central city is different from center city. They always are tourism collecting and distributing place and tourism service center, but not all of them are ultimate tourism destination. Becoming tourism service center and tourism attracting cen- ter is the final goal of tourism central city.