Coupling coordination and driving force of tourism urbanization and human settlements in the western China
Tourism urbanization is a new form of urbanization.Under the support of national strategies such as beautiful China and ecological civilization and people's expectations for better human settlements,a scientific assessment of the coupling coordination and driving force of tourism urbanization and human settlements in the western China is of great significance for the development of green and low-carbon economy and the construc-tion of livable,pleasant and tourable cities.However,existing studies on the bidirectional relationship between tourism urbanization and human settlements are still lacking,especially from the perspective of spatial correla-tion.On the basis of constructing the theoretical framework of coupling coordination between tourism urbaniz-ation and human settlements,this paper empirically analyzes the coupling coordination and driving force between tourism urbanization and human settlements in the western China from 2005 to 2019 by means of coupling coordination model,spatial gravity model and geographical detector.The results show that:1)The av-erage value of the comprehensive index of tourism urbanization and human settlement environment is on the rise,the development level of tourism urbanization is faster than that of human settlement environment,but the index of human settlement environment is higher than that of tourism urbanization.2)The intermediate co-ordination regions of the coupling coordination degree oftourism urbanization and human settlements are mostly,which have evolved into high-level coordination after 2017,and the coupling coordination type has gradually changed from the lagging type of tourism industry to the synchronous development type.3)The spa-tial trend of the coupling coordination degree between tourism urbanization and human settlements is ex-tremely unbalanced,and the spatial linkage intensity shows a chain-like spatial correlation pattern with Ningx-ia,Shaanxi,Chongqing and Guizhou as the main axis.4)The difference of coupling coordination degree is the result of the combined action of different driving factors.International tourism income is the dominant driving force,per capita social fixed asset investment is the fundamental driving force,and the number of A-level scen-ic spots is the original driving force,among which the interaction between international tourism income and A-level scenic spots has the strongest explanatory power.Therefore,special attention should be paid to the inter-action between international tourism income and A-level scenic spots when formulating the coupling and co-ordinated development strategy of tourism urbanization and human settlements in the western China.This pa-per focuses on the spatio-temporal coupling coordination and driving force between tourism urbanization and human settlements in the underdeveloped the western region of China,constructs its theoretical framework and innovatively adds the analysis and discussion of the coupling coordination spatial linkage.On the one hand,this paper provides a new idea for scientific breakthroughs in the interdisciplinary fields of tourism geography and human settlement environment,and on the other hand,it provides a new inspiration for the coupling and coordination of tourism urbanization and human settlement environment in western China.
tourism urbanizationhuman settlementsspace gravity modelgeographic detectorthe western China