Edited by Mimi Li and Wu Bihu Published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group First published 2013

Introduction:

    China has witnessed a dramatic development oftourism in urban context in the past thirty years, especially with its successin hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Expositionin 2010. Urban areas as tourism destinations are receiving increasingly morepopularity than traditional destinations such as national parks, naturalreserves, and historical relics.

    Deriving largely from a special issue on‘Urban Tourism Development and City Destination Marketing’ (Journal of ChinaTourism Research), Urban Tourism in China presents the readers with acollection of nine independent research reports examining issues such asconsumer behavior in urban destinations, the social impact of tourism,destination image, leisure, regional collaboration, and heritage tourism inancient towns. The investigations covered urban areas of different scales anddiversified nature from major metropolises such as Beijing and Guangzhou, toancient towns like Lijiang and Pingyao. Readers who have interests in tourismresearch, business development, and in-depth understanding of urban life inChina may find the book informative and interesting.

    This book was published as a special issue ofthe Journal of China Tourism Research. 

Contents

1.      Introduction:Urban Tourism in China

MimiLi and Bihu Wu                                                         1

2.      MeasuringTourism Spillover Effects Among Cities: Improvement of the Gap Model and a CaseStudy of the Yangtze River Delta

Shan Li,Min Xiao, Kun Zhang, Jing Wu, and Zheng Wang                            7

3.      UrbanMorphology and Tourism Planning: Exploring the City Wall in Pingyao, China

Feifan(Philip)Xie and Kai Gu                                                 30

4.      TheImpact of Heritage Tourism on Public Space in Historic Towns: a Case Study ofLijiang

Ancient Town

Xiao-boSu and Chun-yuan Huang                                              44

5.      Leisurein an Urban Environment----a Perspective of University Students

ShanYang, Honggen Xiao,  and Chau Yeung Tse                                  65

6.      SResidential Survey on Urban Tourism Impacts in Harbin

YuWang, Gang Li, and Xuemei Bai                                             81

7.      TheSocial Impacts of Tourism in a Beijing Hutong----a Case of Environmental Change

ChrisRyan and Huimin Gu                                                   95

8.      AStudy of Imbound Business Tourists’ Shopping Beheviour and InfluencingFactors---- a Case Study of the Canton Fair in Guangzhou

QiujuLuo and Xiangyu Lu                                                  116

9.      Visitorand Resident Images of Qingdao, China as a Tourism Destination

ShaojunJi and Geoffrey Wall                                                147

10.  Developinga Framework for Assessing Visitors’ Responses to Chinese Cities

PhilipL. Pearce, Yongzhi Wu, and Aram Son                                    169

Index                                                                      192