Research on the Spatiotemporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of China's Wellness Tourism Environment
The wellness tourism environment is a prerequisite for achieving the vigorous development of wellness tourism,and is the key to enhancing the competitiveness of wellness tourism.The article first constructs an evaluation index system of China's wellness tourism environment,uses Entropy Weight Method to evaluate China's wellness tourism environment,and analyzes the spatiotemporal evolution pattern of China's wellness tourism environment from 2012 to 2021;the LMDI model was introduced to decompose the influencing factors of the scale evolution of wellness tourism environment at the national and provincial levels,and explore their impact.The results showed that:(1)from 2012 to 2021,the wellness tourism environment index in China showed a"wave like"change,with the peak appearing in 2021,and the minimum value appearing in 2013;(2)The overall wellness tourism environment index shows a characteristic of high in the east and south,and low in the west and north,with provinces with higher wellness tourism environment index located on the east side of the Hu Line;(3)From the national perspective,compared with 2012,the wellness tourism environment effect has increased,the regional ecological effect and the tourism industry effect play a driving role,the development effect,wellness structure effect,wellness tourism development effect,and economic development effect of wellness tourism environment play a restraining role;(4)From a provincial perspective,the wellness tourism development effects and tourism industry effect in most provinces are positive factors,while the wellness structural effects and economic development effect are negative factors.