Abstract: It is of great significance to study the hotel efficiency as hotel industry is one of the mainstays of China tourism industry. The study can help to reveal the economic conditions and rules of hotel industry and promote its development pattern from quantitative change to qualitative change. By using DEA model, this paper measures and calculates the hotel industry efficiency of the 31 provinces of China from 2002 to 2013, analyzes its time-space characteristics and influential factors, and attempts to find the rules and reasons of development and changes of the hotel efficiency in the perspective of geography. The result shows that: (1) In temporal variation, hotel comprehensive efficiency shows an increase trend in fluctuation, which indicates that the industry maturity has improved to some extent. The trend of pure technical efficiency is the same with comprehensive efficiency while scale efficiency has presented a downward trend in recent years. Although scale efficiency imposes a gradually enhancing constraining force on comprehensive efficiency, pure technical efficiency takes the leading position all the time. (2) In agglomeration characteristics, the space gathering of hotel efficiency decreases first and then increases; it changes from weak correlation to strong correlation and shows significant spatial differentiation. (3) In regional characteristics, the hotel efficiency of the eastern region is higher than that of the middle region, the middle region efficiency is higher than that of the western region, and the western region efficiency is higher than that of the northeastern region of China. This spatial pattern of hotel efficiency prevails all the time in the assessment years. (4) In the classification features, provinces of high hotel efficiency gather in the eastern coastal regions and middle southern regions, which forms an "S" type agglomeration belt; provinces of low and variable efficiency concentrate in northern China, whereas provinces of low and stable efficiency concentrate in southwestern China and northeastern China respectively. (5) The positive influences imposed on hotel industry efficiency by the overall scale of the tourism industry, the status quo of marketization, and the extent of informatization decrease in sequence. And it is these three factors that jointly drive the temporal and spatial development pattern of the regional hotel efficiency in China.

摘要： 通过运用DEA模型对我国31省域2002-2013年酒店业效率进行了测算，并对其时空特征和驱动机制进行了分析。研究表明：（1）从时序变化上，酒店业综合效率在波动中呈现增长态势，纯技术效率对综合效率的影响始终占据主导；（2）从集聚特征看，酒店业效率的空间集聚性经过了先减弱后增强的变化过程，空间差异性更加显著；（3）从区域特征看，酒店业效率东部高于中部,中部高于西部,西部高于东北部；（4）从分类特征看，高效率的省份在东部沿海和中南部地区形成一个“S”型集聚带，低效率、低稳定型的省份多集中于我国北部一线；（5）旅游业整体发展规模、市场化程度和信息化水平对酒店业效率产生的正向影响依次减弱，共同驱动着区域酒店业效率的时空格局演变。