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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Study on the Spatiotemporal Differentiation
of Traditional Villages and the Factors
Influencing Tourism Responsiveness: A Case
of Three Provinces and One Municipality in
the Yangtze River Delta Region of China
1
Social Innovation Design Research Centre, Anhui University, Hefei 203106, China
2
School of Fine Arts and Colored Lantern, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Sichuan 643010
3
Lancaster University Environmental Health and Society, UK
Submission date: 2023-12-02
Final revision date: 2024-02-10
Acceptance date: 2024-03-28
Online publication date: 2024-11-14
Publication date: 2025-01-09
Corresponding author
Xuemei Jiang
College of Art, Anhui University, Social Innovation Design Research Center, 230601, Hefei, China
College of Art, Anhui University, Social Innovation Design Research Center, 230601, Hefei, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(2):1771-1786
KEYWORDS
Yangtze river delta regiontraditional villagesspatiotemporal differentiationinfluencing factorstourism responsiveness
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
The development of traditional village tourism destinations is an effective way to ensure the inheritance
and development of traditional villages. Scientific analysis of the spatial and temporal distribution patterns
and influencing factors of traditional villages can provide a scientific basis and decision-making reference
for the protection and development of traditional villages. This study focuses on the development of
traditional village tourism in the Yangtze River Delta region, including the provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu,
and Zhejiang, and the city of Shanghai, and evaluates the tourism responsiveness of village attributes,
ecology, socio-economics, and tourism vitality using 14 indicators. This study investigated the spatial
and temporal differentiation characteristics of traditional villages at different spatial scales in the Yangtze
River Delta region using entropy, TOPSIS, spatial autocorrelation analysis, and a geographic detector. Key
findings included (1) spatial differentiation of “high in the southeast and low in the northwest”; (2) Jiangsu
leading in tourism responsiveness and Anhui lagging behind; (3) low tourism responsiveness despite
the abundance of resources in traditional villages; and (4) the vitality of tourism and the socioeconomic
environment are crucial to responsiveness. In summary, although traditional villages are distributed in
clusters, their tourism economic potential is still not fully tapped.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
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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