PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 785-796.doi: 10.18306/dlkxjz.2022.05.004

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Spatial effect and driving mechanism of the integrated development of culture-tourism industries in the middle Yangtze River Basin urban agglomeration

ZHU Yuanyuan1,2(), ZHOU Xiaoqi1,2, GU Jiang1,2, CHEN Jing1,2,*()   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation of Hubei Province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
    2. Academy of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, Hubei Development and Reform Commission & Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2021-09-13 Revised:2021-10-21 Online:2022-05-28 Published:2022-07-28
  • Contact: CHEN Jing E-mail:zhuyy990@ccnu.edu.cn;jing.chen@ccnu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(42071170);National Natural Science Foundation of China(42001136);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFD1100804-03)

Abstract:

The integrated development of culture-tourism industries enables the high-quality transformation of regional industrial structure, overall spatial optimization, and improvement of regional economic resilience. Based on the theory of integrated development of culture-tourism industries in urban agglomerations incorporating the macro, meso, and micro scales, this study constructed the evaluation indicator system of integrated development of culture-tourism industries of urban agglomerations, and the middle Yangtze River Basin urban agglomeration was taken as the research object. The coupling coordination model and polarization index model were used to calculate the integrated development level of culture-tourism industries in the urban agglomeration from 2010 to 2019, and the spatial effect was analyzed. The driving mechanism of integrated development of culture-tourism industries was also explored. Four highlighted results are unveiled: 1) There is a strong interactive relationship between the subsystems of the integrated development of culture-tourism industries in the urban agglomeration. Most cities have not reached a benign development state. 2) During the study period, the spatial effect of the integrated development of culture-tourism industries in the region was characterized by polarization, while the "return effect" and "diffusion effect" were weak. 3) A core-periphery structure with Wuhan-Changsha-Nanchang as the cores was present. 4) The integrated development of culture-tourism industries in the region was jointly driven by six factors: Resource endowment, consumption demand, infrastructure support, scale efficiency, economic development, and human resource potential. According to the status of the integrated development of culture-tourism industries in the urban agglomeration, this article put forward specific recommendations of strengthening regional linkage and targeting the core driving factors to promote the regional integration construction and high-quality development of local economy in the middle Yangtze River Basin urban agglomeration.

Key words: integrated development of culture-tourism industries, coupling coordination, spatial effect, driving mechanism, middle Yangtze River Basin urban agglomeration