Study on coupling of tourism economy-urbanization-ecological environment of Yangtze River Economic Belt
The coupling and coordinated development of tourism economy-urbanization-ecological environment is key to the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt,and it is of great significance to explore the relationship between the three elements and driving factors.Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as the research region,based on the coupling and coordinated development mechanism of tourism economy-urbanization-ecological environment,a evaluation index system of the coupling and coordinated development of the three systems was constructed,and entropy evaluation method,coupling and coordi-nated development degree model,OLS model,GWR model and other methods were applied.This paper studied the coupling and coordinated development status and driving factors of tourism economy-urbanization-ecological environment in 11 provinces of the Yangtze River Economic Belt during 2012~2021 from dimensions of time and space.The results showed that:①the coupling coordination degree of the Yangtze River Economic Belt was on the rise from 2012 to 2019,and the ecological environment subsys-tem played a leading role.During the 2020~2021 COVID-19 pandemic period,the coupling coordination first showed a signifi-cant decline,and then entered into a slow recovery phase.②The coupling coordination degree of tourism economy-urbanization-ecological environment in the Yangtze River Economic Belt presented a spatial pattern of high in the east and low in the west,and there were obvious differences in the increase and recovery speed of the comprehensive evaluation and systems scores of prov-inces and cities,indicating that the region as a whole was developing in an orderly and coordinated way.③ Overall,the driving factors can be divided into external and internal driving forces,in which the external driving forces represented by the number of inbound tourists and the internal driving forces represented by the total amount of water resources and industrial waste water dis-charge have the strongest positive driving effects on coupling and coordination of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Yangtze River Economic Belttourism economy-urbanization-ecological environmentcoupling coordinationGWR modeldriving factors