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  • Jul. 16, 2025

Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (5): 905-915.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.419

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Spatial differences and causes of tourism and leisure blocks in China

PANG Jiapeng1(), LI Mengyuan1,2()   

  1. 1. School of Tourism, Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics, Urumqi 830012, Xinjiang, China
    2. Department of Physical Education, Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics, Urumqi 830012, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2024-07-14 Revised:2024-09-29 Online:2025-05-25 Published:2025-05-13
  • Contact: LI Mengyuan E-mail:pangjiapeng@foxmail.com;Limengyuan309@foxmail.com

Abstract:

It is of great significance to explore the causes of the spatial distribution of tourism and leisure blocks for the healthy development of blocks. Taking 689 tourism and leisure blocks in China in 2024 as the research object, the spatial distribution and causes of tourism and leisure blocks were analysed by kernel density analysis, Dagum Gini coefficient and geodetector. The results show that: (1) According to the functions and characteristics, tourism and leisure blocks can be divided into natural recreation type, cultural leisure type, entertainment and recreation type, and special leisure type, and the quantitative relationship is sorted in descending order: cultural leisure type>entertainment and recreation type>natural recreation type>special leisure type. (2) The overall pattern of tourism and leisure blocks in the country presents a pattern of “bipolar dispersion and multi-core dot piece”. The poles are mainly distributed according to the urban agglomeration, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration is in the pole position among all types by virtue of its advantages such as complementary functions and rapid circulation of factors. (3) From the perspective of distribution differences, the various differences of tourism and leisure blocks are ranked in order from large to small: inter-provincial, sub-sample cross-overlapping phenomenon and intra-provincial, most of the differences between regions are paired across regions, and the overall performance is obvious east-west difference, and the distribution difference within the region is characterised by “low east-west and high in the middle”. (4) From the perspective of cause analysis, the degree of influence of production-living-ecology spaces on tourism and leisure blocks is as follows: life function>production function>ecological function, and the interaction of various factors significantly improves the interpretation of tourism and leisure blocks, among which life function is the dominant factor, production function is the key factor, and ecological function is the positive catalytic factor.

Key words: tourism and leisure blocks, spatial differences, Dagum Gini coefficient, geodetector, influencing factors