Research on Scale Structure Evolution of Tourism Central Places in Hebei Province Based on Fractal Theory

The tourism central places play an important role in the development of regional tourism as the main tourism destination,tourists supply place,tourism distributing center and tourism service center.This paper applied the fractal theory to analyze the scale evolution trend and the structure variation of tourism central places in Hebei Province from 2002to 2011.The results showed that:1)The scale structure distribution of tourism central places in Hebei presents a fractal structure with dimension value increasing yearly.2)It has gone through dispersion→better distribution→concentration three stages.3)At present,Hebei hasn′t highlighted its status as the first tourism central place with weak monopoly and unreasonable hierarchy-structured system.Thus the tourism central places should implement gradient,customized and coordinated development strategy and emphasize independent tourists market to optimize its scale structure.