Coupling Relationship and Interactive Response between Intensive Land Use and Tourism Industry Development in China’s Major Tourist Cities

Chengkun Huang,Junqian Wu,Lanlan Wang,Jiawei Liao,Feiyang Lin,Deping Chu

doi:10.3390/land10070697

Abstract

(1) Background: Exploring the interactive relationship between intensive land use (ILU) and tourism industry development (TID) is of vital significance to promote the high-quality and sustainable development of tourism and the urban economy. (2) Methods: This paper constructs an evaluation index system of ILU and TID, and comprehensively measures the coupling and interaction between ILU and TID in China’s 58 major tourist cities from 2004 to 2018 by using the entropy weight method, coupling coordination degree model, and panel vector autoregressive model. (3) Results: In terms of the coupling relationship, the coupling coordination degree of ILU and TID in China’s major tourist cities were optimized year by year, and the coupling coordination degree from 2004 to 2008 was less than 0.2, which is part of the serious imbalance recession stage. From 2009 to 2018, the coupling coordination degree was between 0.2 and 0.4, which is part of the moderate maladjustment recession stage. In terms of interactive response, ILU and TID formed a long-term interactive relationship, and the intensity effect of ILU on TID is significantly higher than that of TID on ILU. (4) Conclusions: There is a significant correlation and bidirectional process between ILU and TID, and they have an essential impact on the high-quality development of tourist cities.

Highlights

Land is an essential material carrier for urban construction and development
The above method was used to calculate the index of intensive land use (ILU) and tourism industry development (TID) of 58 major tourist cities in China from 2004 to 2018, and the mean value was calculated by means of a five-year average summary to overcome the errors caused by data fluctuation
The average value of the ILU index of China’s major tourist cities showed an overall growth trend (Figure 3), which can be divided into three stages according to its change trend

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Introduction

Land is an essential material carrier for urban construction and development. The “economical, intensive and efficient” land use mode will directly affect urban economic operation and social well-being [1]. The extensive land use pattern was previously unable to meet the current needs of the social development mode [2,3]. ILU is becoming an inevitable requirement to realize the optimal allocation of land resources and high-quality development of the social economy. For China, which is at the stage of accelerated urbanization, how to achieve harmonious coexistence between ILU and industrial development is an important issue that should be urgently solved by the Chinese government, but the focus of academic research

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