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In the post-epidemic era, the restart of China’s inbound tourism is imminent. However, there are gaps in our current understanding of how distance perception dynamically affects inbound tourism in China. In order to understand the past patterns of inbound tourism in China, we mapped the data of 61 countries of origin from 2004 to 2018 into a dynamic expanding gravity model to understand the effects of cultural distance, institutional distance, geographical distance, and economic distance on inbound tourism in China and revealed the dynamic interaction mechanism of non-economic distance perception on inbound tourism in China. Our research results show that cultural distance has a positive impact on China’s inbound tourism, while institutional distance has a negative impact. The significant finding is that the dynamic interaction of the above two kinds of perceived distance can still have a positive impact on China’s inbound tourism. Its practical significance is that it can counteract the influence of institutional distance by strengthening the cultural distance. Generally speaking, geographical distance and institutional distance restrict China’s inbound tourism flow, while cultural distance, economic distance, and interactive perceptual distance promote China’s inbound tourism flow.

后疫情时代，中国入境旅游重启在即。然而当前学界对距离感知如何动态影响中国入境旅游的内在机制仍存在认知空白。为厘清中国入境旅游的过往发展规律，本研究将2004至2018年共计61个客源国的相关数据纳入动态扩展引力模型（dynamic expanding gravity model），以此探究文化距离（cultural distance）、制度距离（institutional distance）、地理距离（geographical distance）与经济距离（economic distance）对中国入境旅游的影响，并揭示非经济类距离感知对中国入境旅游的动态交互作用机制。研究结果表明，文化距离对中国入境旅游具有正向促进作用，而制度距离则产生负向抑制效应。本研究的关键发现在于，上述两类感知距离的动态交互作用仍可对中国入境旅游产生正向影响。该结论的实践价值在于，可通过强化文化距离来抵消制度距离带来的负面影响。总体而言，地理距离与制度距离会抑制中国入境旅游客流，而文化距离、经济距离以及交互感知距离（interactive perceptual distance）则会促进中国入境旅游客流增长。