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Abstract
In China, the opening of high-speed rails (HSR) brings significant changes to the source-destination spatial distance, the accessibility of destinations, and the spatial structure of tourist flows in each region, exerting varied HSR effects on different types of cities. Against this backdrop, it is meaningful to deeply explore tourists’ preference for city destinations in the light of HSR effects. The exploration could contribute greatly to the planning, marketing, management, and sustainable development of urban tourism. This paper takes Xiangtan and Yueyang as typical cases of the diffusion effect and the corridor effect of HSR. Firstly, the factors affecting destination choice were identified, and the attribute levels were configured, forming multiple virtual alternatives. Next, questionnaire surveys were carried out to collect tourists’ selections between each pair of alternatives. Further, a discrete choice model was constructed to assign a weight to each factor, reflecting its importance to tourists’ decision-making regarding their destination selection and to disclose the law of tourists’ preferences for destinations. The results showed that (1) Under the HSR diffusion effect, the top three factors affecting tourists’ preference for destinations in Xiangtan are convenience, connection time, and popularity; under HSR corridor effect, the top three factors affecting the tourists’ preference for destinations in Yueyang are reputation, convenience, and leisure and reception facilities (LRFs). (2) The destination preference is closely associated with personal features like gender, income, occupation, and fellow travelers. Tourists with different personal features give different attention to the various influencing factors. The research findings provide a reference for the sustainable development of urban tourism.
Highlights
The general structure of this paper is as follows: Part 1 introduces the high-speed rail (HSR) effects on the sustainable development of urban tourism and summarizes the contents of this research, Part 2 expounds on the situation of the study area and explains the research methods, Part 3 compares the different preferences for destinations under different HSR effects, Part 4 points out the connections and differences between our results with the findings of predecessors, and Part 5 summarizes the laws of tourists’ destination selection under HSR effect and provides suggestions on the sustainable development of urban tourism
The superposition effect occurs between the tourism spaces of two source markets in a large region, as the opening of HSR greatly enlarges the radius of the 60% and 80% traveling spatial ranges [15]
(1) The research results showed that HSR effects and destination selection are two sides of the same coin
Summary
The general structure of this paper is as follows: Part 1 introduces the high-speed rail (HSR) effects on the sustainable development of urban tourism and summarizes the contents of this research, Part 2 expounds on the situation of the study area and explains the research methods, Part 3 compares the different preferences for destinations under different HSR effects, Part 4 points out the connections and differences between our results with the findings of predecessors, and Part 5 summarizes the laws of tourists’ destination selection under HSR effect and provides suggestions on the sustainable development of urban tourism.The sustainable development of urban tourism hinges on transportation infrastructure. The Matthew effect means that tourist flows tend to cluster in destinations with superior geographical locations, tourist resource endowment, and tourist reception capability, as the opening of HSR compresses time and space and promotes the diffusion of tourist flows, allowing tourists to select between more destinations in the same period [14]. The filtering effect means that because of the time and space compression effect of HSR, some lesser-known tourism nodes with a low resource taste are edged out by well-known, far away destinations in the spatial competition of regional destinations, despite their advantages in location and travel distance. The superposition effect occurs between the tourism spaces of two source markets in a large region, as the opening of HSR greatly enlarges the radius of the 60% and 80% traveling spatial ranges [15]. The convergence effect means the tourist flows in two close cities both rise after the opening of the HSR [16]
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