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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (3): 460-470.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2022.293

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Exploring the causes of spatial differentiation of tourism development level in the high-quality development stage: Empirical evidence of Yellow River Basin based on factor decomposition

TIAN Xiaobo1,2(),HU Jing1,2(),JIA Yaoyan3,ZHU Lei4   

  1. 1. College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, China
    2. Wuhan Branch of China Tourism Academy, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, China
    3. Faculty of Culture Tourism, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030031, Shanxi, China
    4. College of Resources and Environment, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246133, Anhui, China
  • Received:2022-06-16 Revised:2022-07-20 Online:2023-03-25 Published:2023-03-31
  • Contact: Jing HU E-mail:txbct3@126.com;huj@mail.ccnu.edu.cn

Abstract:

On the basis of the stage changes of the influencing factors of tourism development, the index system of influencing factors of tourism development in the high-quality development stage is constructed, and the spatial differentiation causes of tourism development level in the Yellow River Basin of China in 2019 are explored using geodetector and geographically weighted regression. The following conclusions are drawn: (1) In the new development stage, the development of regional tourism is affected by traditional and new factors, such as the novel development concept, both forming the system of factors affecting regional tourism development in the high-quality development stage. (2) The level of tourism development in the Yellow River Basin shows a spatial divergence pattern of decreasing from downstream to upstream, with relatively large differences in the middle and upper reaches and small differences in the downstream areas and a relatively significant mismatch of supply and demand between the upper, middle, and lower reaches. (3) In single and comprehensive dimensions, each factor has a significant influence on tourism development. However, the new factors are stronger than the traditional factors, and the influence ranking of each factor has consistency. Thus, tourism development is remarkably influenced by the synergy between factors. (4) Among the traditional factors, including consumption level, transportation conditions, and tourism resource endowment, and among the new factors, including innovation capacity and green production, have a significant spatial heterogeneous influence on tourism development. However, their heterogeneous spatial effects are different.

Key words: tourism development level, high-quality development stage, influencing factors, spatial heterogeneity, Yellow River Basin