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Arid Land Geography ›› 2019, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 392-403.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2019.02.19

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Spatial and temporal changes and driving mechanism of county-scale tourism in frontier tourism destinations

ZHU Yi-ting1,2,XIONG Hei-gang3,BAI Yang2,YANG Li2,CAO Kai-jun2,TANG Jin-wen4   

  1. (1  College of Resource and Environmental Science,Xinjiang University,Urumqi 830046,Xinjiang,China;2  School of Tourism Studies, Xinjiang University,Urumqi 830049,Xinjiang,China;3  College of Applied Arts and Science,Beijing Union University,Beijing 100083,Xinjiang,China;4  School of Economics and Commerce,South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510006,Guangdong,China)
  • Online:2019-03-25 Published:2019-03-07

Abstract: As a western frontier region, Xinjiang has gradually become a popular destination for tourism in the northwest of China due to its rich natural and cultural tourism resources generated by its special geographical location and social environment. To grasp the spatial development law of tourism economy is conducive to the formulation of regional tourism economic policies and the sustainable development of regional tourism economy in Xinjiang. The change of spatial pattern of tourism economy is a complicated process. In order to get more accurate and comprehensive analysis of the change process and reasons,  taking 74 county units in Xinjiang as the research object and selecting multiple indicators, this paper uses the tools including ESDA, ArcGIS and GeoDa, and the dynamic panel data model to analyze the regional differences and driving mechanism of spatial pattern evolution of tourism economy at the county level in Xinjiang from 2008 to 2017. The results show that the agglomeration of the county scale tourism economy displayed the tendency of " down-up-down-up" because the level of regional tourism development has some correlation with the development of tourism in its neighboring areas. It presents a significant graded change characteristics from the north to the south with an obvious difference from county to county. The enhancement of the fallout of the tourism in the northern regions promoted the interaction between those counties and their neighboring counties and thus formed a spatial distribution pattern of "multi-core and multi-strip", pushing the newly added hot spots southward although this could not change the long-term distribution pattern of "the north being the tourist honeypots while the south being kept in the doghouse”  in Xinjiang. Affected by the traction from northeast to southwest, the trajectory of the gravity of the county-scale tourism economy was overlapped with several "V" shapes, which also makes the coverage of the ellipse of the standard deviation be increased gradually in this direction. By regression analysis, there were significant differences in intensity of the influencing factors from county to county. The characteristics of the tourism resources and policy support are the main driving factors. The improvement of traffic condition and human capital level can not necessarily promote the development of county-scale tourism economy in each county. The level of economic development has no obvious influence on the spatial and temporal evolution of tourism economy in the county region.

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