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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Key Rural Tourism Villages in China
Zhi-Yang Chang 1
 
 
 
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Tourism and Social Administration College, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, NO. 3601 Hongjing Road, Nanjing 21171, China
 
 
Submission date: 2023-09-16
 
 
Final revision date: 2024-02-02
 
 
Acceptance date: 2024-03-25
 
 
Online publication date: 2024-06-18
 
 
Publication date: 2025-01-02
 
 
Corresponding author
Zhi-Yang Chang   

Tourism and Social Administration College, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, China
 
 
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(1):593-605
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/186479
 
 
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KEYWORDS
key rural tourism villages
spatial distribution
influencing factors
 
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Based on the theory of cultural ecology and the spatial perspective of geography, this paper studies the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of 320 key rural tourism villages in China by using spatial analysis methods such as the nearest neighbor index, equilibrium measure, kernel density analysis, hot spot analysis, geographical linkage rate, and quantitative geography research methods. The results show that: 1) The spatial distribution type of the key rural tourism villages in China is condensed, but the distribution is relatively balanced in the provinces. 2) Overall, the spatial distribution pattern of “two cores, three plates, and the rest close clusters” is presented, and the spatial distribution characteristics are more in the east and less in the west, and more in the edges and borderlands of provinces and regions. 3) On the provincial scale, the hot spots and cold spots of the key rural tourism villages in China show obvious distribution characteristics of “blocky clusters” from east to west. 4) Tourist market, resource endowment, social economy, population density, macro policy, and road traffic are the main factors affecting the spatial distribution of key rural tourism villages in China.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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