First Advisor

Thomas M. Poulsen

Term of Graduation

Fall 1991

Date of Publication

10-18-1991

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Geography

Department

Geography

Language

English

Subjects

Hotels -- Location -- China -- Beijing, Tourism -- China -- Beijing

DOI

10.15760/etd.6129

Physical Description

1 online resource (2, vi, 119 pages)

Abstract

This thesis, utilizing data obtained through the author's working experience and on extensive academic investigation, aims to establish and analyze the locational deficiency of some 100 foreign tourist hotels in Beijing and its origin. To do so, an optimal hotel location is first determined by analysis of social, economic, cultural and environmental features of Beijing in relation to the tourism industry.

Specifically, a standard package tour program of Beijing is established and then analyzed in spatial and temporal terms, the result of which is further mapped by using a weighted mean center technique. The international tourists and the hotels in which they stay are segregated in space from domestic tourists by the fact that domestic and foreign accommodations are different in affordability, a common phenomenon of tourism in a developing country. Some 70% of foreign tourist hotels in Beijing are remote from tourist attractions, causing unnecessarily long travel time and traffic congestion.

The origin of the locational problem lies in bureaucratic mismanagement in building new hotels in the 1980s. Urban land use practice in Beijing, characterized by arbitrary transfer, neglected the role of differential value of land in locating tourist hotels. The rationale behind the clustering of tourist hotels in the Eastern City relates to the traditional influence of Beijing's commercial center. However, with the rapid growth of international tourism in the last decade, the function of a majority of hotels has undergone fundamental change. The increasing role in tourism requires a shift of location of hotels from the East City to the northwest suburbs. Contrary to the locational economics in free market societies, Beijing's hotel locations have not adjusted to their changing roles.

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