Study on the spatio-temporal evolution of tourism efficiency and transportation accessibility and their coupling and coordination degree——A case study in Shaanxi Province
The enhancement of regional transportation accessibility has a positive effect on increasing the number of tourists,stimu-lating tourism consumption and improving tourism efficiency,but there are few studies on the correlation between the two.Taking Shaanxi Province as an example,this paper analyzed the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of tourism efficiency and transporta-tion accessibility from 2012 to 2019,and calculated their coupling and coordination degree.The results showed that:①The overall tourism efficiency of Shaanxi Province increased from 2012 to 2019,but the tourism efficiency of many cities showed a state of first ris-ing and then declining.②Transportation accessibility in Shaanxi Province had been greatly improved,and the gap between regions had decreased from 2012 to 2019.③In addition to the high accessibility of Xi'an City as the provincial capital and its radiating effect on the surrounding areas,the transportation accessibility of Shaanxi Province generally presented the characteristics of strong north-south and weak east-west.④ The coupling coordination level between tourism efficiency and transportation accessibility in all regions of Shaanxi Province was relatively high,and all other regions except Shangluo City had reached the intermediate coordination level or above.
tourism efficiencytransportation accessibilityDEA modelGIS spatial analysiscoupling and coordination degree