Spatial Distribution and Influential Factor of Agricultural Tourism Destinations in Wuhan Metropolitan Area
As one of the important paths of promoting the integration of urban and rural areas, the development and construction of agricultural tourism destinationarereceiving more and more attention from the academia. By using spatial analysis methods of standard deviation ellipse method, the adjacent index method, and kernel density estimation method, we analyzed the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of the agricultural tourismdestinationsin WuhanMetropolitanArea. This not only can provide references for the development of agricultural tourism destinations inWuhanMetropolitanArea, but also offer good example and demonstration to those in other places.The results show that: 1) The spatial distribution of agricultural tourism destinations in Wuhan Metropolitan Area is centripetal and appears circular distribution pattern apparently. 2)As a whole, agricultural tourism destinations are concentratedly distributed,butthe distribution types differ significantly in different regions. 3)The spatial distribution of the destinations presents a pattern of coexistence of patches and sheet shapes, but the distribution patterns differ in different areas.4) The spatial distribution of agricultural tourism destinations inWuhan Metropolitan Area is obviously affected by urban hierarchy, traffic, rivers,and regional economic andtourism development level,etc. Among those, the impactsofdifferent scale cities on the spatial distribution of agricultural tourism destinationare different,especiallyfreeway plays an important role in the spatial distribution of agricultural tourism destinations.On the basis of the above analysis,wemakethe followingsuggestions for the development ofWuhan Metropolitan Area:Firstly, rely on the main cities such as Wuhan, Ezhou and Xianningtostrengthen the construction of agricultural tourism destinations, expand the tourism consumption market,optimize regional development, and promote the rationalization of agricultural tourism layout under the guidance of policies and regulations. Secondly,take market-oriented policies, enrich the types of the agricultural tourism product, and stress the experience leisure function and local characteristics of the product. Thirdly, perfect the construction of regional transportation axis to strengthen the contact with other tourism resources, establish regional tourism product systems, make full use of the complementary resources, enlarge the influence of regional tourism product system, and then promote the balanced and sustainable development of the agricultural tourism destinations and market of Wuhan Metropolitan Area.
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