Spatial-temporal Pattern and Influencing Factors of Inbound Tourism in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from the Perspective of Multi-dimensional Distance
By constructing a theoretical framework with four dimensions of geography,culture,institution and e-conomy,this paper analyzed the spatio-temporal characteristics of inbound tourists with different distances countries to the Yangtze River Economic Belt(YREB)from 2010 to 2019 through location entropy,and their influencing factors are explored using the augmented gravity model.The results show that:(1)Inbound tourists in the YREB are mainly from South Korea,Japan and France,with a high concentration of tourists from countries with middle and long distances and a balanced tourist structure.(2)Tourists from countries with close distances prefer provinces of Hunan and Yunnan etc.in the southern part of the region as their destinations.In contrast,those from countries in the middle-and long-distance ranges are concentrated in the northern part of the region.Compared with tourists from countries with close and long dis-tances,the agglomeration core of those with middle distances is more stable and concentrated.(3)Geographic and cul-tural distances negatively affect destination choice,institutional and economic distances positively affect it,and linguistic and climatic differences insignificantly affect it.The significance of the effects of multidimensional distances is weaker during 2015-2019 than during 2010-2014.Furthermore,the directions of the impact on tourists from countries with close and long distances are roughly opposite to those from countries with middle distances.
location entropygravity modelmulti-dimensional distancesinbound touristYangtze River E-conomic Belt