Regional Differentiation of Chinese Tourism Web sites.

This is a case study on cybergeography of Chinese Tourism Web sites (CTW). With investigation and statistics in 1999 and 2002, the spatial distribution of CTW in mainland of China and the influence factors were analyzed. It is proposed that the distribution of CTW in China is spatially differentiated, and the total number of regional CTW is related to the levels of regional social economic background, Internet techniques and the status of regional tourism development. Provinces and regions were classified into 4 groups based on the regional tourism and CTW. With regression analysis, the total number of CTW is correlated to the total number of regional domains, regional hotels, regional travel services and regional creativeness index with testified efficient linear regression model. Finally, based on these analyses, some regional strategies for the development of CTW were proposed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]