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Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (11): 2031-2041.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.181

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Spatial distribution and influencing factors of key rural tourism villages in the Yellow River Basin

LI Ke(), HE Jing(), MENG Yangyang, LI Changrui   

  1. College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, Henan, China
  • Received:2025-04-07 Revised:2025-06-13 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-11-26
  • Contact: HE Jing E-mail:likelikejune@163.com;hejing@henau.edu.cn

Abstract:

The analysis of the spatial distribution and influencing factors of key rural tourism villages in the Yellow River Basin of China is of significant strategic importance for the coordinated implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the safeguarding of the basin’s ecological barrier function, and the activation of regional cultural heritage in the basin. Using spatial analysis, this study quantitatively analyzed the spatial distribution of 244 national key rural tourism villages across nine provinces/autonomous regions and 65 cities in the Yellow River Basin in 2023. Integrating the random forest regression model and geodetector, this study systematically reveals their spatial distribution and influencing factors. The findings reveal the following. (1) Key rural tourism villages in the Yellow River Basin exhibit significant spatial agglomeration and imbalance, forming a distribution pattern of a multi-core clustering with belt-shaped extension. (2) Random forest regression and geodetector analyses show that the distance from provincial capital cities, amount of intangible cultural heritages, and elevation are key driving factors that affect the spatial differentiation of key rural tourism villages, reflecting the dominant driving mechanism of location-resource-nature synergy. (3) Factor interaction detection shows that the interaction between road network density, urbanization rate, and other factors forms the dominant factor combination that affects the spatial differentiation between key rural tourism villages. The interaction effect between distance from provincial capital cities and annual average precipitation provides the highest spatial explanatory power, revealing the coexistence of basin differentiation and the development contradictions among key villages.

Key words: rural tourism, random forest, geographical detector, spatial distribution, Yellow River Basin