中文摘要：

以山西省11个地级市为基本研究单元，选取2000--2011年为连续的时间序列，以旅游外汇收入作为衡量入境旅游发展水平的基础指标，采用标准差、变异系数和泰尔系数等研究方法从总体差异和地带性差异两个层面分析了山西省入境旅游的区域差异特征及演变趋势，然后运用赫芬达尔指数、绝对集中度和绝对分散度等研究方法探讨了山西省入境旅游的区域极化程度和地域空间格局的演变趋势。结果表明：虽然山西省入境旅游获得了迅猛发展，但是各地级市入境旅游发展存在显著的不均衡现象，具体表现为：从总体差异层面看，绝对差异呈加速增长趋势，而相对差异表现为波动缩小的变化趋势；从地带性差异层面来看，市际差异呈波动缩小趋势，地带内差异大于地带间差异，地带内差异是市际差异的主要贡献者，而晋中区域的内部差异又是造成地带内差异的主要原因。山西省入境旅游的空间格局特征表现为：入境旅游明显集聚于少数几个地级市，但是极化程度呈波动减小的趋势；随着旅游业的发展，山西省入境旅游经济形成了核心边缘式的地域空间格局，而且核心区和外围区逐渐扩大，边缘区逐渐缩小。

英文摘要：

Taking each prefecture city of Shanxi Province as the basic research unit, selecting 2000 - 2011 as a continuous time sequence, and using international tourism receipts as the basic index to measure the level of inbound tourism. By using Standard Deviation, Coefficient of Variation and Theil Coefficient, this paper analyzed the characteristics and evolution tendency of the overall regional disparities and zonal disparities of inbound tourism in Shanxi Province, and then discussed the evolution trend of inbound tourism＇s regional polarization extent and regional spatial pattern in Shanxi Province by using Herfindahl- Hirschman index, Absolute Concentration Rate and Absolute Dispersion Rate. The result showed that, although it was a rapid development for inbound tourism, there were still significant disequilibrium among cities＇ tourism, the specific performance as follows ： From the overall disparities aspect, it was an increasing trend for the absolute disparities, but the relative disparities＇ change trend performed as fluctu- ate to reduce;from the zonal difference aspect, interurban disparities＇ change trend performed as fluctuate to reduce, internal- regional disparities was greater than inter - regional, and internal - regional disparities was the main contributor of interurban disparities, and the disparities internal Jinzhong region was the main reason that caused internal - regional disparities. The characteristics of spatial pattern performed as follows, inbound tourism eco- nomic obviously concentrated to a few cities, but the change trend of polarization extent performed as fluctuate to decrease. With the development of tourism industry, inbound tourism economy of Shanxi Province formed the type of regional spatial pattern which named core and edge, and the core area and peripheral area gradually expanded, the edge area gradually narrowed.