Zou Tongqian

The coordinated advancement of cultural, tourism and ecological industry construction is of great significance to the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Based on culture-tourism-ecology panel data of the nine provinces and autonomous regions in the Yellow River Basin from 2012 to 2022, a modified coupling model was constructed using the entropy method to measure the development levels of culture, tourism, and ecology across the provinces and autonomous regions in the basin. Separately, the modified gravity model, social network analysis, and Dynamic QAP were employed to examine the structural characteristics and influencing factors of the spatial correlation network. The results show that from 2012 to 2022, the development levels of culture, tourism and ecology in the Yellow River Basin have trended upward with fluctuations, with the relative development levels being ecology>culture>tourism, and the comprehensive development has spatial heterogeneity. Regionally, the coupling coordination degree follows a clear spatial pattern that is generally higher in the east and south, and lower in the west and north of the basin. The spatial correlation network within the Yellow River Basin is growing in density and complexity, and it is characterized by multi-threaded interconnections. Shanxi Province occupies a central position in this network, as it maintains strong linkages with other provinces, while Sichuan Province is in a marginal position in the network and has weak connections with other provinces. Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Gansu and Sichuan are “central provinces” in the spatial correlation network, and they are controlling and influencing the external radiation and spatial spillover of culture, tourism and ecology in the basin, while Qinghai and Ningxia are relatively marginalized. Among the factors influencing the spatial network structure, spatial adjacency and economic development level have significant impacts. Infrastructure differences have changed from being “irrelevant” to being “important drivers”. Differences in human capital and government macro-control have changed from marginally significant to having no impact.

Tourism has emerged as a vital driver for global economic growth and development. However, amidst the relentless pursuit of tourist arrivals and financial gains, there is growing recognition of the importance of prioritizing quality over quantity in tourism development. This study explores the concept of new quality productive forces and their implications for achieving high-quality development within tourism. It examines the multifaceted dimensions of new quality productive forces, including innovation, efficiency, and sustainability, and elucidates the transformative potential of new quality productive forces in reshaping the tourism operating and fostering long-term economic resilience and sustainability.

Cultural heritage tourism is gaining more and more attention for the characteristics of cultural heritage. However, developing cultural heritage tourism needs local people's support. This paper introduces the Stimulus-Organism-Response theory and proposes a research model about the relationships between subjective norms, personal norms, local people's perceptions (i.e., economic, sociocultural, environmental perceptions), and their support intentions toward cultural heritage tourism. The results show that the subjective norms significantly affect local people's perceptions and the individual's support intention toward cultural heritage tourism. In addition, local people's perceptions and personal norms positively influence their support intentions toward cultural heritage tourism. The results help us understand the influence factors of local people's support intentions toward cultural heritage tourism and the influence mechanism. Thus this paper has provided some valuable theoretical and practical implications.

The condition of the tourism environment is the key factor that affects the tourism experience. A comprehensive evaluation of the tourism environmental suitability score is of great significance for guiding tourism planning and decision-making, improving the suitability score of the tourism environment in a targeted manner and guaranteeing the sustainable development of tourist cities. By adopting various indicators, such as the Universal Thermal Climate Index, the amount of precipitation, the vegetation index, the concentration of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere, and the ultraviolet radiation intensity index, this study quantifies the comfort level of weather, the weather impacts, the vegetation status, the atmospheric environment, ultraviolet radiation, and other key factors. Based on employing the AHP-TOPSIS algorithm, this study then conducts a comprehensive evaluation of China's tourism environmental suitability score and a comprehensive comparative analysis of the tourism environmental suitability scores of three typical tourist areas: the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan area, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. The results show that the tourism environmental suitability score in China has obvious characteristics of spatial differentiation: the scores in East and South China are the highest while the score in the north-west inland area is the lowest. Among the three typical tourist areas, the Pearl River Delta region has the highest tourism environmental suitability score, followed by the Yangtze River Delta region, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan region has the lowest score. The northern regions of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan area, the southern regions of the Yangtze River Delta and the surrounding areas of the Pearl River Delta are more suitable for the sustainable development of the tourism industry. PM2.5 is the main factor limiting the tourism environmental suitability scores in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan area and the Yangtze River Delta, so atmospheric environment management will be an effective way to improve their tourism environmental suitability scores.

Article Open Access by Tongqian Zou1, Xiaorong Hu2 and Mengya Zhang3 1 Silk Road International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage (Samarkand, Uzbekistan); Beijing International Studies University (Beijing, China) 2 Beijing International Studies University (Beijing, China) 3 Ordos Institute of Technology (Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China) DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/up/13/10 Received: 06 December 2023 / Accepted: 15 December … Читать далее Central Asia: The Vanguard in Jointly Building the «Belt & Road» Community of Shared Future for Mankind

Zhangjiakou is a northern Chinese city that hosted the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. As an important ice and snow tourist destination, it is essential to investigate Zhangjiakou's rate of landscape pattern change, the landscape ecological security level, and ecosystem service value, particularly the tourism ecological service value during its construction. With land use data from 2000 to 2020, this study comprehensively analyzed the dynamic changes in Zhangjiakou, including land use dynamics, the land use transfer matrix, landscape vulnerability, landscape disturbance, ecosystem service value, tourism ecological service value, and other aspects. The results show that the landscape pattern in Zhangjiakou was greatly disturbed from 2015 to 2018, and the landscape ecological security was threatened in the process of landscape pattern adjustment. By 2020, after the landscape pattern was adjusted and stabilized, the landscape ecological security was restored, and the ecosystem service value was significantly improved, especially the tourism ecological service value. The results of this study will play an important role in promoting the optimization of Zhangjiakou's ice and snow landscape pattern and the improvement of tourism ecological value. In addition, it provides important lessons for the development of other ice and snow tourist destinations.

Research on the evolution of cultural policy is the key in the field of public policy study, and it is also an important means to solve the problems that have emerged in cultural heritage management. The National Cultural Park is an innovative cultural heritage protection system proposed by Chinese leaders within the context of national rejuvenation and building a culturally-strong country campaign. From the perspective of system evolution theory, this paper systematically sorts out the ideas behind international heritage management and the evolutionary process of the Cultural Relics Protection Unit system, in an effort to explore the origin, innovation and vision of the National Cultural Park System. A review of the international heritage documents revealed that the principle of heritage protection has developed from “authenticity” to “integrity”, and the focus of the protection object has also changed from “monism” to “diversity”, which provided a theoretical background for the burgeoning National Cultural Park. The Cultural Relics Protection Unit system has been promoted as the most crucial cultural heritage management system in China. Therefore, this study sheds light on the evolution and limitations of the system that lays a practical foundation for the National Cultural Park System. There have been three stages in the history of China's National Cultural Relics Protection Unit, namely, the creation of the system (1956–1965), the survival crisis of the system (1966–1977), and the rebirth and development of the system (1978 to the present), in which the main driving concepts of China′s cultural heritage management have been sequentially elucidated as simple protectionism, tolerant conservatism and comprehensive developmentalism, respectively. Since the establishment of China's Cultural Relics Protection Unit system, tremendous progress has been made not only in the enlightenment of the public's mindset and but also in the development of system and culture. However, the changes in the institutional environment gradually exposed its limitations regarding cultural relic management and value expression. The National Cultural Park System is the fruit created by the internal contradictions of the cultural heritage system itself and the evolution of heritage theory. Its biggest innovation lies in the two core connotations of “integrated protection” and “integrated development”. In the future, as the National Cultural Park management system matures, a Chinese cultural heritage management system will take shape in which the National Cultural Parks become dominant and various cultural resources are utilized. Finally, the National Cultural Park will become a symbol of Chinese culture and will be internalized into the common belief system of the Chinese nation.