Spatial effect of tourism promoting rural development:An empirical analysis of 83 counties in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Tourism industry is the effective driving force for rural revitalization.Taking 83 counties(cities)in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous(Xinjiang for short)as research objects,this paper firstly uses bivariate spatial autocorrelation test to examine the spatial correlation between tourism development and rural development in Xinjiang;and then uses spatial Dubin model to explore the spatial effects of tourism development on rural de-velopment in Xinjiang.The results show that:1)Tourism development and rural development in Xinjiang show certain spatial agglomeration characteristics during the study period.The spatial agglomeration intensity of rural development in Xinjiang shows a gradually increasing trend.What's more,their spatial correlation also gradually increased from 2006 to 2020.2)Tourism development in Xinjiang can simultaneously promote the development of agricultural production,the improvement of farmers'life and the improvement of social and economic support in both"local"and"neighboring"areas,thus promoting the improvement of rural develop-ment level,and has a strong spatial spillover effect.3)The spatial spillover effects of tourism development on rural development in Xinjiang show obvious spatio-temporal heterogeneity.In terms of time,taking 2011 as the cut-off point,the spatial effect shows a"negative → positive"transition process.Spatially,the spatial spillover effects show the feature of"decreasing from north to south".In addition,from the decomposition paths,their spatial spillover effects also show prominent regional heterogeneity.Among them,the development of tourism in southern Xinjiang has a certain"siphon effect"on social and economic support.Finally,based on the re-search conclusions,relevant policy suggestions are put forward to provide important references for promoting the rural revitalization of tourism empowerment and the diversified development of Xinjiang's rural areas.
rural revitalizationtourism development benefits for Xinjiangrural developmentspatial panel Dubin modelspatio-temporal heterogeneityXinjiang