Abstract
Purpose -The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of transportation accessibility improvement on the tourism spatial interaction and on the tourism spatial structural change as time passed. Design, data, and methodology -The research design for this study is fold three parts. First, gravity model was used to measure the tourism spatial interaction. Second, the effect of opening high-speed rail was identified by conducting the random-effects model. Third, the mean center and standard deviation distance analysis were used to identify the change of the tourism spatial structure between each region that has high-speed rail station The annual panel data from 2010 to 2019 was used to conduct the empirical analysis. The data were gathered from the Origin-Destination statistics provided by the Korea Transport Database. Result -The empirical results show that the opening of high-speed rail increased the tourism spatial interaction between each region that has high-speed rail station. In addition, the mean center of tourism spatial interaction has moved from the metropolitan area to regional area, since the high-speed rail has been opened in 2017. Conclusions -The study reveals that the improvement of transportation accessibility increases the tourism spatial interaction as well as alleviates the concentration of the tourists in the metropolitan area.
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