Despite the phenomenon of mutual transfer between advantages and disadvantages in the process of development,the polarization is more apparent:advantageous tourist destinations become more superior while disad vantageous ones more inferior,the phenomenon of space relationship in tourist de sti nations is embodied as the form of mathew effect.space competition,builded on hi erachical discrepancies among tourist destinations,functions as the internal pro pelling forces to form Mathew effect,and the decisive behavior of tourists who a re aware of the image of tourist desti...