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This 15 page paper considers how the use of spatial interaction theory can be used to examine and explainer tourism patterns. The paper looks at the theory and the supply and demand elements to show the theory in action, the paper uses the case of tourism in China to illustrate the points raised. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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File: TS14_TEspatinter.rtf
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However, to assume it is the whim of tourists that drive the industry as a whole and patterns of tourist travel is a short sighted view of tourism. Tourism can
only exist where there are the resources and infrastructures support the type of tourism that is taking place. In summary tourism is only likely to occur where there is a
convergence of required factors interacting to make it possible for the area to attract tourism, for the tourists to known where to come and understand why, for the physical presence
to be supported and features or benefits promised that help attract the tourists to be present. Above all the tourists have to be able to get to the distribution, all
of these need to be present for a tourism industry to develop in any specific area. However, the same patterns of tourism are not seen in all countries, there are
divergences, which may be partly explained by culture, but the patterns of travel and tourism can also be examined in the context of spatial interaction which explains the way tourism
has been developed, how it is marketed and the way different can influence the market by creating demand or supporting it. To consider this we need to look at
the concept of spatial interaction. This is the interactions of two places that are a distance apart. At its most basic spatial interaction theory has three components; complimentarity, transferability and
intervening opportunity (Dicken and Lloyd, 1990). The way these are seen can be directly applied to the tourism industry, if we look briefly at each in turn we can
then consider how this can influence the supply and demand in the tourism services. Complementarity looks at the two places that interact and the way this meets their mutual
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