Spatial-temporal Evolution And Collaborative Approaches Of The Coupling Coordination Relationship Between China’s Starred Hotel Industry And Tourist Flow

Since the implementation of China’s Reform and Opening-up,China’s tourism industry has been developing continuously and healthily,as well as an expanding of China’s tourism flow.The tourism industry has become an important portion of the Chinese economy.As is known to all,the hotel’ industry is one of the pillar industries of tourism,the development of starred hotel industry shows a significant influence in supporting the development of tourism furthermore.At present,there is an uncoordinated developmental situation between China’s starred hotel industry and tourism flow.Therefore,in the new situation of Chinese economic development,the unbalanced and inadequate development of China’s starred hotel industry is contradicted to the needs of Chinese tourism economic development.Hence,it is necessary and important to study the characteristics and trends of the coupling and coordination relationship between China’s starred hotel industry and tourism flow.Taking China’s starred hotel industry and tourism flow as the research objects,this research focuses on the construction of an evaluation model of coupling-coordination degree between the starred hotel industry and tourism flow,both the analytical mechanism of spatial-temporal characteristics of coupling-coordination degree between the starred hotel industry and tourism flow.Based on a systematic review of literary achievements of related research topics,this paper proposes the evaluation index system of the starred hotelindustry and tourism flow.Connected to the administrative culture&tourism-related statistical data,we collect the evaluation index data of starred hotel industry and tourism flow refer to 31 provincial administrative regions of China from 2010 to 2019(due to different statistical caliber,temporarily excluding Hong Kong,Macao,and Taiwan)and collated them.By using the entropy method to calculate the comprehensive evaluation index of China’s stared hotel industry and tourism flow systems,we overall evaluate China’s star hotel industry and tourism flow development and analyze them systematically.Then we use the coupling-coordination degree model to calculate the coupling coordination indexes of China’s starred hotel industry and tourism flow over ten years.Afterward,we use GIS methods such as map mapping,Jenks natural point-breaking,spatial autocorrelation,barycenter coordinates,standard deviation ellipse,and so on to reveal the spatial distribution characteristics and spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of the star hotel industry and tourism flow coupling-coordination degree.Finally,the obstacle degree model is used to analyze the coupling-coordination obstacle factors.Based on the above research results,we analyze the collaborative approaches between China’s starred hotel industry and tourism flow and put forward the correlated development countermeasures and suggestions.The main conclusions are as follows.(1)The evaluation index system of starred hotel industry includes two first-class indexes,namely,Business Scale X1 and Business Efficiency X2.There are 10 second-class indexes,including Number of Star Hotels X11,Original Value of Fixed Assets X12,Average Number of Employees X13,and so on.The evaluation index system of tourism flow includes four first-class indexes:Tourism Flow Scale Y1,Tourism Flow Consumption Y2,Tourism Flow Benefit Y3,Tourism Flow Effect Y4,and 11 second-class indexes including Domestic Tourists Y11,Inbound Tourists Y12,and Tourism Reception Growth Rate Y13,and so on.(2)Over the years,most of China’s starred hotel industry and tourism flow couplingcoordination relationships refer to the imbalanced type,and a small number of regions refer to the coordinative type;over the years,most of China’s starred hotel industry and tourism flow coupling-coordination degrees are in the intermediate stage,and a small number of regions belong to the primary or advanced stage respectively,and the couplingcoordination degree has not formed a polarization.The coupling-coordination degrees of the starred hotel industry and tourism flow show the characteristics of fluctuation and an overall rise in time sequence.(3)There are significant spatial and evolutionary characteristics in the coupling-coordination of the starred hotel industry and tourism flow:1)spatial hierarchy:on the whole,it presents a descending rule from the eastern coastal area to the western inland area through the central area of China.The coordinative type areas are all distributed in the eastern coastal areas,the imbalanced type areas are the central and western regions,the northeast and northwest regions have the lowest imbalance level,and the central regions together with southwest regions have the second-lowest imbalance level.②Spatial zonality:the sub-high value area is the eastern coastal area;the middle value area in north China,central China,and southwest China,and it is dynamically adjusted around the three regions;the sub-low value area generally presents the interpolation distribution around the marginal median area,forming a "T-shaped"spatial distribution pattern in the whole country;the low value area has long been concentrated in Gansu,Ningxia,Qinghai,and Tibet.③ Spatial aggregation:there are significant positive global spatial aggregation indexes over the years;in terms of local spatial aggregation,the high-high value aggregation areas are the eastern coastal area from Jiangsu to Fujian,Sichuan is the most typical high-low value aggregation area,and the low-low value aggregation area is fixed in Inner Mongolia,Gansu,and Xinjiang.In terms of cold and hot spots,the long-term hot spots include Shanghai,Jiangsu,Zhejiang,Fujian,Jiangxi,and Guangxi,and the long-term cold spots are mainly in Inner Mongolia,Shaanxi,Gansu,Ningxia,Sichuan,Qinghai,Xinjiang,and Tibet.④ Spatial directionality:the gravity centers of the national coupling coordination degree are generally moving from east to west,and the coupling coordination degree is distributed along the NortheastSouthwest direction in the national space and inclines to the East-West timely.(4)The collaborative path of.the starred hotel industry and tourism flow system includes,1)the scale control of starred hotel industry and tourism flow development;2)the improvement of the starred hotel industry and tourism flow development efficiency;3)the optimization of the starred hotel industry and tourism flow spatial structure;4)the improvement of star hotel industry and tourism flow system structure.The development countermeasures and suggestions include:1)strengthening the regulation of the development and construction policies of the starred hotels;2)improving the scale of tourism market and promoting the development of high-quality tourism;3)establishing inter-provincial tourism cooperation and regional tourism cooperation mechanism;4)improving th e service quality of the starred hotels and optimizing service supply.