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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (2): 316-324.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2022.188

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Structural evolution of tourism flow network in Ningxia under the influence of COVID-19

REN Haoke1(),WEI Wei1,2(),WANG Kehui3   

  1. 1. School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan, China
    2. Energy-Environment-Economics Research Center, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan, China
    3. School of Culture and Tourism, Ningxia University, Zhongwei 755000, Ningxia, China
  • Received:2022-05-01 Revised:2022-05-24 Online:2023-02-25 Published:2023-03-14

Abstract:

Exploring the structural evolution characteristics of tourism flow networks under the influence of COVID-19 is helpful in discovering new tourism routes and identifying new requirements of the tourism market. On the basis of network travel notes, from the perspective of the COVID-19 effect on tourism flow, a social network analysis method was used to examine the evolution of the tourism flow network structure in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China before and after the onset of COVID-19. The following results are obtained: After COVID-19, new tourism nodes and routes have improved the unbalanced distribution of the tourism flow network nodes in Ningxia; COVID-19 has increased the possibility of tourists from marginal tourism nodes to other tourism nodes, and changed the aggregation and diffusion effect of tourism flow network nodes in marginal areas; COVID-19 has greatly changed the location of religious places and core performing arts tourism nodes in the network structure, and even disappeared from the entire tourism flow network structure. However, most of the core tourism nodes exhibit strong competitive advantage before and after the onset of COVID-19.

Key words: COVID-19, tourism flow, network structure, network travel notes, Ningxia