摘要
Sustainable development,underpinned by robust systemic driving forces,is central to the growth of high-quality tourism.Therefore,identifying these forces at the regional level is crucial for advancing China’s goal of becoming a leading nation for tourism.This study accordingly constructs a new evaluation system that covers tourism market demand,industry supply,and structural transformation,and analyzes data from 31 Chinese provincial regions(2010–2019).The entropy method and spatial autocorrelation analysis were applied to examine the driving forces for sustainable regional tourism development.The results revealed that:First,at the national level,the driving forces for sustainable regional tourism development exhibited a clear upward trend from 2010 to 2019,with an acceleration in growth after 2015.However,there was significant regional heterogeneity:The eastern region displayed the highest levels of driving forces,followed by the central and western regions.Second,high-value clusters of these driving forces expanded from the eastern to the western regions,while the central provinces remained relatively balanced.Specifically,provincial regions such as Guangdong,Beijing,and Zhejiang were able to successively enter the high-value clusters,whereas the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region,Gansu,and Qinghai consistently remained in the low-value clusters.Third,the driving forces exhibited a significant spatial agglomeration effect.The degree of clustering followed an inverted“U”trend over the study period,while the spatial patterns of the provincial regions remained relatively stable.
基金
funded by the Ministry of Education’s Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Project(23YJA790070).
