Abstract
This paper aims to fully tap the value of the tourism brand of Changbai Mountains scenic area, give play to the radiation effect of the brand, and create the Greater Changbai Mountains (GCM) tourist area, thereby enhancing the coordinated development of regional tourism. Specifically, symbiosis correlation and symbiosis density were adopted to recognize the tourism symbiosis units in the core region of GCM tourist area, and an evaluation model was established for the tourism symbiosis quality in the core region of GCM tourist area. Based on the evaluation results, the places within the core region were divided into multiple levels. The results show that the core region of GCM tourist area covers Yanji City, Dunhua City, Hunchun City, Antu County, Baishan City, Fusong County, Changbai County, and Tonghua City, and these places fall on three different development levels.
Highlights
Proposed by the German biologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in 1879, symbiosis means different organisms live together in a certain physical association [1]
With the development of research and practice, the symbiosis theory has been gradually extended to tourism development industry
Tourism symbiosis refers to the mutual promotion and joint development between destinations in the tourism market, with the goal to realize the coexistence, mutual sharing, reciprocity, and win-win between two or more parties [4]
Summary
Proposed by the German biologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in 1879, symbiosis means different organisms live together in a certain physical association [1]. With the development of research and practice, the symbiosis theory has been gradually extended to tourism development industry. In 1984, Stringer and Pearce [2] became the first to introduce this theory to tourism and advocated people-oriented tourism research. Taking collaborative tourism planning as an example, Getz and Jamal [3] analyzed the symbiosis relationship between environment and community. Many other scholars combined symbiosis theory with tourism research, making the latter more scientific and applicable. Tourism symbiosis refers to the mutual promotion and joint development between destinations in the tourism market, with the goal to realize the coexistence, mutual sharing, reciprocity, and win-win between two or more parties [4]. Foreign scholars emphasize empirical analysis over the theoretical system of tourism symbiosis, while domestic scholars mainly tackle the symbiosis relationship of regional tourism, stakeholders, and urban tourism
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