Spatial patten evolution characteristics and influencing factors of tourism economy in Chinese excellent tourism cities
With the increase in demand for national tourism,China has fully entered the era of mass tourism.However,due to differences in conditions for the development of tourism in China,the development of the tourism economy is spatially unbalanced,which hinders the coordinated development of the regional tourism economy.The total tourism economy of Chinese excellent tourist cities accounts for a high proportion of the country's total tourism economy,and a study with them as the target can more accurately reflect the situation of Chinese tourism economy,which is more meaningful for the enhancement of the tourism economy.Based on the pan-el data of tourism economy-related indicators of Chinese excellent tourism cities from 2008-2019,spatial autocor-relation,exploratory regression and Geographically Weighted Regression(GWR)were used to explore the spatial pat-terns and influencing factors of the tourism economy of Chinese excellent tourism cities.Adopting the GWR model considering"spatial non-stationarity"to explore the influencing factors of tourism economy can more scien-tifically measure the intrinsic influencing mechanism of regional tourism economic development differences.The results show that:1)The tourism economy of Chinese excellent tourism cities has strong spatial correla-tion,and the number of cities with high-high(H-H)and low-low(L-L)agglomerations is high,showing a two-tiered pattern of"large dispersion and small agglomeration".During 2008-2019,the overall agglomeration pat-tern of tourism economy in Chinese excellent tourism cities is relatively stable,but the agglomeration pattern in local areas has changed.2)Based on exploratory regression analysis,the optimal combination of factors influencing do-mestic tourism income is:tourism resource endowment,industrial structure,transportation conditions,and ecological environment condition;the optimal combination of factors influencing tourism foreign exchange income is:tourism resource endowment,degree of opening to the outside world,degree of marketization,and ecological environment condition.3)The results of GWR model analysis show that the degree of influence of each factor shows obvious spa-tial heterogeneity,indicating that the influence of each factor on the tourism economy of Chinese excellent tourism cit-ies is not static,but changes with the change of sample units,and the research results can provide a scientific basis for each city to formulate corresponding measures for tourism economic development.