Abstract
Together, the regional economy, tourism industry, and ecological environment form mutually interactive and interdependent relationships. Therefore, a better understanding of their evolutionary relationships could help reveal the spatial-temporal evolution patterns of their coordinated development and promote a successful implementation of strategies for regional sustainable development. By choosing the 14 cities (12 cities and 2 city-level prefectures) in Gansu Province as cases, this study establishes the respective evaluation indices for assessing the coordinated developmental level of the tourism system. With a combination of varying quantitative methods including order parameter analysis, fuzzy membership classification, regression analysis and gray correlation analysis, measurement models for assessing the coordinated developmental level and analyzing the associated spatial-temporal evolution patterns are established between 2000 and 2016. The conclusions are as follows. Between 2000 and 2016, the development of the regional economy, tourism industry, and ecological environment mutually reinforced one another in Gansu Province. Overall, the coordinated developmental level kept gradually improving over time. However, the development of the ecological environment lagged behind that of the tourism industry and economic growth, and synchronous and coordinated development among these three subsystems was not achieved. The overall level of coordination among 14 cities was also gradually improved, as manifested by the good level of coordinated development. However, spatial differences still existed.
Highlights
IntroductionAccording to official statistics released by China’s National Tourism Administration, the number of domestic tourists in China reached 4.44 billion, with tourism revenue amounting to 4 trillion RMB in 2016
In order to highlight the characteristics of provincial integrality more objectively and scientifically, the evaluation index system at the provincial level mainly reflects the overall development of tourism, economy and ecological environment in Gansu Province
It is necessary to consider the differences in tourism, economy and ecological environment of various cities and the universality of the evaluation index when establishing the evaluation index system of prefectural-level cities
Summary
According to official statistics released by China’s National Tourism Administration, the number of domestic tourists in China reached 4.44 billion, with tourism revenue amounting to 4 trillion RMB in 2016. The disruption of the regional ecological balance will interfere with the natural cycle of the ecosystem, and reduce the attractiveness of tourist destinations. This disruption will prevent tourists from gaining a good perception of the benefits of tourism, constrain the development of the regional tourism industry, and to a certain extent slow down the pace of regional economic development. In order to enhance regional development, it is necessary to study the interactive and evolutionary relationships between these three factors to promote a balanced and coordinated development
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