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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (5): 1063-1073.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.247

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Coupling coordination, obstacle diagnosis and driving factors of new urbanization and high-quality development of tourism in China

LYU Wanqing(), SONG Zhigao(), XIAO Zhaofu   

  1. School of Business Administration and Tourism Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China
  • Received:2025-05-06 Revised:2025-10-19 Online:2026-05-25 Published:2026-05-25
  • Contact: SONG Zhigao E-mail:lvwq@ynu.edu.cn;songzhigao@stu.ynu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Investigating the coupling coordination relationship between new urbanization and high-quality development of tourism is crucial to the steady advancement of Chinese-style modernization. Building on the coupling coordination mechanism between new urbanization and high-quality development of tourism, this study utilizes provincial panel data on China from 2014 to 2023 and employs the coupling coordination degree model, the obstacle degree model, and the geodetector to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution, obstacle factors, and driving forces of their relationship. The results indicate that (1) From 2014 to 2023, the levels of both new urbanization and high-quality development of tourism exhibited a significant overall upward trend, and their evolutionary trajectories demonstrated high consistency from 2014 to 2019. (2) The coupling coordination degree between the two systems experienced a volatile rise, characterized by substantial regional differences that formed a decreasing spatial pattern from the eastern coast to the central and western inland regions. (3) Regarding the obstacle factors, economic urbanization and tourism innovation development were the primary obstacles at the criterion layer for the new urbanization system and the high-quality development system of tourism, respectively. At the indicator layer, GDP per capita and the number of tourism students were the core obstacles. (4) Among the driving factors, the level of economic development and the capacity for government intervention had the strongest explanatory power for the coupling coordination degree, whereas the influence of scientific and technological innovation was relatively limited.

Key words: new urbanization, high-quality development of tourism, coupling coordination, obstacle degree model, geodetector