An Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Mount Emei Tourism Network Attention
Network attention represents users'potential demand for or inte rest in something.By using"Mount Emei"as a keyword for search,we obtained the Baidu search index of 31 provinces,municipalities and autonomous regions in China's main-land from 2016 to 2022,and used geospatial analysis to explore the temporal and spatial differences in Mount Emei tourism net-work attention and its influencing factors.It is found that the overall annual trend of network attention to Mount Emei tourism has firstly increased and then decreased,with July-to-October being the"peak season"for online search and November-to-Decem-ber the"off-season".The geographic distribution of network attention to Mount Emei tourism is relatively scattered,and the dif-ferences of network attention within the province is continuously decreasing.The temporal distribution of network attention to Mount Emei tourism is quite consistent with the tourism peak and off seasons.The main factors influencing the spatial distribution characteristics of network attention to Mount Emei tourism are the gross domestic product,population size,and the level of inter-net development of the tourism-generating regions.
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