High-Speed Rail Traffic Impact on the Development of Tourism in Xinjiang

Xinjiang has more sightseeing resources than any other provinces of China. But its tourist income is unbecoming to its resources endowment, the relatively remote location is an obvious disadvantage of Xinjiang's tourism compared to that in other provinces. Location disadvantage bottlenecks Xinjiang tourism development. The gray correlation-analysis-method was introduced in the paper to analysis the factors which block the tourism development of Xinjiang Province. Meanwhile, the current situation of Xinjiang high-speed railway which was opened by the end of 2014 was introduced to elucidate the amelioration of Xinjiang tourism because of the development of Xinjiang high-speed railway.