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High-speed rail (HSR) networks in China profoundly altered China's urban tourism spatial patterns. This paper examines the characteristics and evolution of spatial patterns of the urban hinterland before and after HSR network. Economic relation model and spatial analysis in ArcGIS were utilized on 338 national prefecture-level administrative units. The results show: (1) HSR strengthens tourism-based economic relationships between cities, and demonstrates a “corridor” effect of the spatial distribution of the change rates of tourism external economic relationships; (2) Center cities with larger tourism comprehensive scale are enhanced with expanding trans-province hinterland; the hinterland of central cities are enlarged, of which spatial linkages between the hinterlands are increased; (3) the competition and difference for the hinterland of central cities are intensified. Based on these, this paper proposes a tourism spatial structure with 19 urban agglomerations, 6 1st-class and 21 2nd -class tourist economic zones, and strategies for optimizing China's tourist space.

While tourism is closely associated with globalization and modernity, so too it has been held to exemplify post-modernism. This paper reports the application of the concept of deconstruction to urban heritage sites. Such locations are divided into the tourism zones of cultural, leisure and landscape spaces. After describing the construction of these three spaces it is suggested that “eight paths” of space organization exist, namely “culturalization”, “creative”, “experience”, “humanization”, “leisure”, “refinement”, “life-orientation” and “characteristic”. The final section of the paper proposes an integrated organization of space that aids our understanding of historical street design in Suzhou through a utilization of post-modern concepts.

By using the variation coefficient, Gini coefficient and Theil coefficient, this paper makes preliminary exploration of temporal-spatial change features and driving mechanism for regional differences of domestic tourism in China from 1995 to 2009. According to the results, we drew the following conclusions: (1) The regional difference of domestic tourism in China tends to be narrowing generally, and is less than that of inbound tourism, playing an important role in narrowing the overall gap of regional tourism in China. (2) The regional internal difference features: inter-provincial difference in the eastern region and difference among the eastern, central and western regions are comparatively obvious and demonstrate a significantly shrinking tendency, the change tendency is consistent with the change tendency of overall difference and exercises a decisive role in overall difference, whereas the inter-provincial difference in the central and western regions is small and relatively stable, having less infl...