pieces of effective questionnaires on domestic tourism characteristics from 45 tourism spots of the whole province including Chongqing City accomplished by Tourism Adminstration of Sichuan Province's Government in 1995 also indicated the choice relation between the characteristics of domestic tuorists and the types of tourism product as following:1)Male tourists,local tourists,the middle age (30～45ys) group and the middle lower income class prefer vacationing areas,such as spa,urban park,and small lakes etc.2)The tourists from outside of Sichuan Province,the elder tourists (over 54ys),and such professional tourists as scholars,technicians,teachers and students,are conversely,interested in humanistic sites,such as theme park,museum,memorial hall,shrine,temple and historical building,etc.3)Nature based products and nature and human mixed products attract all type of tourists,among them,the youth (16～29ys) group are specially interested in nature based products,and the high income class have high possibility to visit the human and nuture mixed resorts.4)The conformity between tour purpose and the choics of type of tourism destinations is unclear.But the correspondence of the tour duration to different kinds of tourism products is very definite.For one day tour,hot spring and urban park are accorded the most preference,whereas the small lake and large mixed resort with nature and human mixed products are frequented by 2～3 days tour.
Tourists of much longer journey often aimed at theme park,museum,and historic archaeological sites.5)The tour expenditure is highly correlated to the type of visting destination.The highest expenditure is theme park,the secondary is nature based spots and mixed resorts,the lowest is hot spring and urban park.Based on the information on tourism supply and demand mentioned above,3 key points to sustainable tourism development in sight seeing areas are put forward in the end of this paper:1)to develop nature attracts and mixed attracts of nature and human historic culture in recent future;2)the development of vacationing attracts should be faced to middle and lower income classes,especially to local residents;3)the scientific value and cultural value of tourism attracts should be specially stressed in development and construction of tourism products.