The Role of Tourism in Promoting the Urbanization of Ethnic Border Areas: A Case Study of Xishuangbanna

Jiao Yu, Jianxin Yang, Jiangfeng Li (), Ling Lin () and Yingjian Ren
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Jiao Yu: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, No. 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China
Jianxin Yang: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, No. 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China
Jiangfeng Li: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, No. 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China
Ling Lin: School of History, Culture and Tourism, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541001, China
Yingjian Ren: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, No. 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-23

Abstract: Taking Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, a typical ethnic border area with rapid tourism development, as an example, this study uses a coupling coordination degree model to quantitatively analyze tourism and urbanization, two subsystems in Xishuangbanna, and measure the level of coordinated development between tourism and urbanization in Xishuangbanna. This study provides a theoretical basis for building famous tourist cities and for improving the urbanization efficiency and level in areas such as Xishuangbanna with abundant tourism resources but insufficient urbanization. The following results were obtained: (1) Xishuangbanna’s tourism plays a strong role in promoting urbanization, and its tourism urbanization response coefficient, tourism industry location entropy, and tourism urbanization level indicator all show clear upward trends; tourism has become a local advantage industry and has a significant positive correlation with urbanization. (2) In the evaluation system for tourism urbanization quality, the weights are ranked in the order of social indicators > economic indicators > population indicators > spatial indicators > eco-environmental indicators; over time, social indicators and economic indicators show clear fluctuating upward trends, population indicators fluctuate greatly, and spatial indicators and eco-environmental indicators fluctuate little. (3) The top five indicators influencing tourism urbanization are the number of the incoming individuals, the number of travel agencies, the number of corporate enterprises in the catering industry, the forest coverage rate, and the number of ethnic minority villages. (4) In the evaluation of the coupling coordination degree, the comprehensive evaluation indicator is low, resulting in an overall low coupling coordination degree of tourism urbanization quality in Xishuangbanna, and three types of coupling coordinated development (i.e., severe, moderate, and mild imbalances) are observed.

Keywords: coupling coordination; response coefficient; tourism urbanization; Xishuangbanna (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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