Rural Tourism Network Evaluation Based on Resource Control Ability Analysis: A Case Study of Ning’an, China

Xue Jiang,Haoran Zhang,Xiaoya Song,Hongyu Zhao

doi:10.3390/land10040427

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Abstract

Organization of rural tourism resources is important for optimizing rural land use based on rational resource classification. Quantitative analysis was performed to evaluate the resource control ability of rural tourism networks. This was achieved by determining the resource control relationship and assessing the structure of the rural tourism network. The ability of resource control was analyzed via resource abstraction, which included the extraction of resource nodes and corridors, control scope analysis, and network structure level evaluation. The proposed approach was applied to the Ning’an in Heilongjiang Province, China, and proved to be effective for exploring the network degree and development trends in rural tourism resources. By examining the resource control ability, the spatial characteristics and development trend in rural tourism networks were quantitatively analyzed, especially the connection mode of key tourism resources, network structure analysis, and resource linking ability. The core resources showed a lack of outward ability in the network, and the secondary resource expansion ability was limited. Via resource control ability analysis, this study focused on areas with rich tourism but an unbalanced spatial structure, combining the directional characteristics of the network to provide suggestions for the optimization rural tourism resources network in other regions of the world.

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There is a notable trend in rural social decay and disintegration, as rural areas have been considered independent of social relations emerging during urbanization
We introduced the resource spatial dominance relationship method to evaluate tourism We introduced the resource spatial dominance relationship method to evaluate t spatial network patterns, as this approach facilitates resource characteristic analysis and ism spatialevaluation, networkthus patterns, as this approach facilitates resource characteristic anal structure promoting empirical network optimization
We identified ship between the tourism resources

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Modernization, industrialization, and urbanization constitute the background and driving forces of global development. There is a notable trend in rural social decay and disintegration, as rural areas have been considered independent of social relations emerging during urbanization. This has gradually become a path for people to return to nature in a post-modern society [1,2]. In the second half of the 20th century, research on rural areas has declined in developed countries. In the 1990s, with the revival and reconstruction of rural areas, rural research received increasing attention in Western Europe, North America, and other regions [3,4,5,6]

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