The A-level tourist attractions are an important carrier for the development of the tourism industry.As the most fundamental tourism supply,studying their spatial distribution pattern and driving forces is of great si...The A-level tourist attractions are an important carrier for the development of the tourism industry.As the most fundamental tourism supply,studying their spatial distribution pattern and driving forces is of great significance for promoting the process of regional tourism industrialization.This study used the tourism resource abundance index,nearest neighbor distance index,and geographic detector model to study the spatial characteristics and driving forces of A-level tourist attractions in China.The results showed that the A-level tourist attractions in China exhibit significant spatial clustering,but there are significant regional differences.They are mainly distributed on the southeastern side of the Hu Huanyong Line.Overall,the average of tourism resource abundance index is 71.74.The proportion of cities above that average is relatively low,and they form local high-value clustering areas mainly in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration,Yangtze River Delta,and Chengdu-Chongqing regions.The spatial distribution patterns of various types of scenic spots also exhibit agglomeration characteristics,but their agglomeration scales and spatial patterns exhibit obvious regional differences.The spatial distribution pattern of A-level tourist attractions in China is a result of the combined effect of regional socio-economic factors and scenic environmental factors.Among them,the explanatory power of regional socio-economic factors is stronger than that of scenic environmental factors.Among the scenic environmental factors,resource endowment has the strongest explanatory power,and there are significant differences in the dominant factors influencing the distributions of different types of A-level tourist attractions.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(42401207,42371195)The Youth Research Project of Humanities and Social Science of the Ministry of Education(22YJC790152)The Key Scientific Research Project of Colleges and Universities of Henan Province(23A790020)。
文摘The A-level tourist attractions are an important carrier for the development of the tourism industry.As the most fundamental tourism supply,studying their spatial distribution pattern and driving forces is of great significance for promoting the process of regional tourism industrialization.This study used the tourism resource abundance index,nearest neighbor distance index,and geographic detector model to study the spatial characteristics and driving forces of A-level tourist attractions in China.The results showed that the A-level tourist attractions in China exhibit significant spatial clustering,but there are significant regional differences.They are mainly distributed on the southeastern side of the Hu Huanyong Line.Overall,the average of tourism resource abundance index is 71.74.The proportion of cities above that average is relatively low,and they form local high-value clustering areas mainly in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration,Yangtze River Delta,and Chengdu-Chongqing regions.The spatial distribution patterns of various types of scenic spots also exhibit agglomeration characteristics,but their agglomeration scales and spatial patterns exhibit obvious regional differences.The spatial distribution pattern of A-level tourist attractions in China is a result of the combined effect of regional socio-economic factors and scenic environmental factors.Among them,the explanatory power of regional socio-economic factors is stronger than that of scenic environmental factors.Among the scenic environmental factors,resource endowment has the strongest explanatory power,and there are significant differences in the dominant factors influencing the distributions of different types of A-level tourist attractions.
