Tourism Resource Population:Conception,Spatial Structure,Exploiting Potentiality:A Case Study of the Han Buddhism Temple Tourism Resource
旅游资源群：概念特征、空间结构、开发潜力研究

Tourism resource population refers to the aggregation of similar tourism resource occupying certain geographical areas and it is the basic element of regional tourism resource system. The concept of tourism resource group is enlightened by the concept of population in ecological system, which has special characteristics comparing with the individual tourism resource. It includes three characteristics as quantity,space and time. The studies on tourism on population scale are based on the assumption that the spatial arrangement of elements of tourism resource has special implications. The paper measures the spatial pattern of tourism resource population by GIS technology. Furthermore, the index of potentiality of regional tourism resource exploitation is put forward and the tourism resource population of Buddhism temple is analyzed. this study is expected useful not only to the practice of tourism resource management,but also to the development of the whole population of tourism resource.