Author(s)

Yang Yu, Yejia Chen, Jinhua Zhang

Corresponding Author

Jinhua Zhang

Abstract

A comprehensive evaluation system of the economy-tourism-environment system is established from the national perspective. On the basis of the constructed models of development, coupling, and coupling coordination, the comprehensive level of economy-tourism-environment of the 29 provinces(municipalities and autonomous regions) in mainland China(excluding Xinjiang and Tibet) from the year of 2007 to 2016 was evaluated. By introducing the method of Kernel density function and Moran’I global spatial autocorrelation analysis, the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of the development degree, coupling degree, coupling coordination degree of the system are studied. The results show that: (1)the development degree of the economy-tourism-environment system is low, the coupling degree is high; (2)the coupling coordination degree is general or intermediate(neither high nor low) and is complex in diversity; (3)the development, coupling degree and coupling coordination degree are greatly improved, and the gaps between the provinces are decreased; (4)the spatial distribution of development degree evolved gradually from “random” into the “aggregation” characteristics;(5)the coupling degree and coupling coordination degree in spatial distribution has obvious characteristics of “aggregation”. In view of the problems existing in China’s economy-tourism-environment system, the relevant countermeasures measures are given in order to promote the coordinate development of the economy-tourism-environment.

Keywords

Economy-Tourism-Environment; Coupling; Kernel Density Function; Spatial Correlation