Response pattern and driving mechanism of virtual tourism flow to high-speed rail construction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
The deep cognition of the response relationship between online attention behavior and high-speed rail(HSR)construction helps to enrich the theoretical connotation of interactive research on transportation and tourism and provides a decision-making reference for the high-quality development of regional tourism.Taking the rapid transit system and virtual tourism flow in 2015 and 2019 as the research object,this paper uses accessibility,social network analysis,response index,spatial variation function,and Geodetector to deeply analyze the response pattern and driving mechanism of virtual tourism flow to HSR construction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.The findings are as follows:(1)From the perspective of HSR accessibility,a circle pattern has formed with the junction zone of Anhui,Jiangxi,Hunan,and Hubei as the core,characterized by rapid improvement in the edge areas and slow improvement in the core areas.(2)The virtual tourism flow extends along two horizontal HSR routes with apparent HSR path dependence.HSR promotes the decrease of distance stickiness and the increase of long-distance attention path of tourism network attention.(3)From the perspective of response,the pattern shows obvious dimensional and spatial differentiation.The optimal fitting models for the response index patterns of the city outward and the scenic spot inward dimensions are Gaussian and Exponential models,and the response pattern of the scenic spot inward dimension is more significantly affected by structural factors than the city outward dimension.The response pattern of different dimensions has strong spatial self-organization,with significant differences in the north-south and southeast-northwest directions.(4)From the perspective of response mechanism,transportation construction is an essential driving force of urban tourism diffusion function,and the improvement of service capacity promotes the enhancement of scenic spot agglomeration ability.The time-space compression effect of HSR reduces the time cost of tourists'travel,expands the travel radius of tourists,and affects tourism network attention through changes in tourists'distance perception.The evolution of tourism node location and network structure in virtual space reflects the tourism demand pattern within the region,which guides tourism development in real space.We should optimize the layout of the rapid transportation network,explore diverse paths of demand manifestation,and promote the coordinated development of transportation and tourism space to enhance the transformation from virtual attention to actual flow.
virtual tourism flowhigh-speed rail constructionresponse patterndriving mechanismYangtze River Economic Belt