Author(s)

Danhe Wang, Hui Gong, Zhao Li

Corresponding Author

Danhe Wang

ABSTRACT

With the proposition and development of the tourism throughout Hainan Province, and the deep development and innovation of tourism resources in Hainan Province, more and more tourists to the island have chosen some tourism destinations except Sanya city, Haikou city and other traditional tourism destinations for the deep tourism experience. Therefore, the status and role of Sanya as a tourist distributing center begin to emerge gradually, and the tourism distributing ability of Sanya begins to attract more and more tourists. In the paper, the tourism distributing ability of Sanya is investigated and analyzed from three aspects including the internal traffic, the external traffic, and the agglomeration and diffusion of tourist flow. The urban space form, the urban road planning, the urban traffic site layout and the urban traffic management as well as the status of highways, railways, planes and liners in Sanya are investigated and analyzed. In addition, some characteristics of tourist flow in the process of agglomeration and diffusion are found. For example, Guangdong replaces the three traditional provinces of Northeast China became the first tourist source of Hainan Province during the investigation period. The Yangtze River Delta Region is transformed from a provincial capital tourist source to a small and medium-sized city tourist source. The agglomeration of tourist flow in Sanya is still dominated by the tourist source outside the province, but the tourist source in the province is developing gradually.

KEYWORDS

Tourism Distribution Ability, Sanya City