Tourist Flow since the Implementation of the Large-scale Development of Western Regions

Based on the Sichuan inbound tourism statistics of 2000-2010, an analysis was made of the temporao and spatial characteristics of the inbound tourist flow in Sichuan. The results show that the development of inbound tourism is of apparently a periodic and seasonal nature. The foreign market has become the major inbound tourist source characterized mainly by short distance market, with long-distance market playing an auxiliary role, whose guest sources are stable and mainly from some particular countries; the spatial flow of the inbound tourists is of a monocentric gathering-and-departure model with a highly centralized feature.