Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
Open Access

Abstract

The Relationship of High-Speed Rail and Sustainability of Urban Tourism:Evidence from Discrete Choice Model of Chinese Tourists? Preference for City Destinations

Wei-Wei Zhang* and Ling-Ling Jiang

In China, the opening of High-Speed Rails (HSR) exerting varied HSR effects, because HSR reduces the traveling resistance over spatial distance and magnifies the impacts of tourism resource endowment, and tourist reception capacity. This paper compares Xiangtan City and Yueyang City as typical representatives of high-speed rail diffusion effect and high-speed rail corridor effect, in order to determine whether there are differences in tourist destination selection preferences under different High-Speed Rail effects and tourist preferences with different personal characteristics. The results show that:

• Under the diffusion effect of High-Speed Rail, the first three factors affecting tourists' destination preference are convenience, connection time and popularity; under the effect of High-Speed Rail corridor are reputation, convenience and Leisure Reception Facilities (LRF).

• Destination preference is closely related to personal characteristics such as gender, income, occupation and peers.

Tourists with different personality characteristics pay different attention to various influencing factors.

Published Date: 2021-11-12; Received Date: 2021-10-22