IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v11y2019i1p236-d195034.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Land Border Tourism Resources in China: Spatial Patterns and Tourism Management

Author

Listed:
  • Shengrui Zhang

    (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

  • Linsheng Zhong

    (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

  • Hongrun Ju

    (School of Tourism and Geography Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, Shandong, China)

  • Yingjie Wang

    (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

Abstract

Land border tourism in China serves as a pillar industry in local economic development and is an important sector for international cooperation. This paper aims to fill the gap in the spatial pattern of land border tourism resources in China using geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial statistical methods. The pattern was analyzed from the aspects of numerical features, spatial variance, and spatial association at different spatial scales. The results show that 3341 land border tourism resources in China reveal significant clusters and outliers at both the prefectural and county scales, offering useful information for the management of tourism resources. Physical factors, cultural diversity, regional policies, the relationships between neighboring countries, and public facilities are shown to be the main factors influencing the patterns. It is suggested that the government should adjust its management policies based on the characteristics of local resources, conduct combinatorial development of different types of resources, strengthen the cooperation domestically and internationally, improve public facilities, and protect the local environment and ethnic culture.

Suggested Citation

  • Shengrui Zhang & Linsheng Zhong & Hongrun Ju & Yingjie Wang, 2019. "Land Border Tourism Resources in China: Spatial Patterns and Tourism Management," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-20, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:236-:d:195034
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/1/236/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/1/236/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Andrea Arrington, 2010. "Competing for tourists at Victoria Falls: A historical consideration of the effects of government involvement," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(5), pages 773-787.
    2. John Berdell & Animesh Ghoshal, 2015. "US–Mexico border tourism and day trips: an aberration in globalization?," Latin American Economic Review, Springer;Centro de Investigaciòn y Docencia Económica (CIDE), vol. 24(1), pages 1-18, December.
    3. Kwabena A. Anaman & Rose Aminah Ismail, 2002. "Cross-Border Tourism From Brunei Darussalam To Eastern Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 47(01), pages 65-87.
    4. Anna Spenceley, 2006. "Tourism in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(5), pages 649-667.
    5. Bradbury, Susan L., 2013. "The impact of security on travelers across the Canada–US border," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 26(C), pages 139-146.
    6. Lord, Kenneth R. & Putrevu, Sanjay & Shi, Yi Zheng, 2008. "Cultural influences on cross-border vacationing," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 61(3), pages 183-190, March.
    7. Jimber del Río, Juan Antonio & Orgaz Agüera, Francisco & Moral Cuadra, Salvador & Cañero Morales, Pablo, 2017. "Satisfaction In Border Tourism: An Analysis With Structural Equations," European Research on Management and Business Economics (ERMBE), Academia Europea de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa (AEDEM), vol. 23(2), pages 103-112.
    8. Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia) & Zeephongsekul, Panlop & Packer, David, 2011. "Spatial and temporal modelling of tourist movements using Semi-Markov processes," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 844-851.
    9. Blasco, Dani & Guia, Jaume & Prats, Lluís, 2014. "Emergence of governance in cross-border destinations," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 159-173.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Xia Xie & Lei Zhang & Hui Sun & Feifei Chen & Chunshan Zhou, 2021. "Spatiotemporal Difference Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Tourism Urbanization in China’s Major Tourist Cities," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-21, October.
    2. Gangmin Weng & Hongyan Li & Yan Li, 2023. "The temporal and spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of tourist attractions in Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(8), pages 8677-8698, August.
    3. Li‐chun Hou & Lian‐xia Wu & Sheng‐li Ju & Zhi‐rong Zhang & Yin‐jian Zhu & Zheng‐qing Lai, 2021. "The evolution patterns of tourism integration driven by regional tourism‐economic linkages—Taking Poyang Lake region, China, as an example," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(3), pages 1914-1937, September.
    4. Xiaodong Chen & Tian Wang & Xin Zheng & Fang Han & Zhaoping Yang, 2022. "The Structure and Evolution of the Tourism Economic Network of the Tibetan Plateau and Its Driving Factors," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-18, February.
    5. Shengrui Zhang & Guanghai Zhang & Hongrun Ju, 2020. "The spatial pattern and influencing factors of tourism development in the Yellow River Basin of China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(11), pages 1-16, November.
    6. Shengrui Zhang & Lei Chi & Tongyan Zhang & Yingjie Wang, 2022. "Spatial Pattern and Influencing Factors of Tourism Resources in Northwestern Ethnic Areas in China—A Case Study of Longde County," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-20, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Arie Stoffelen & Dominique Vanneste, 2017. "Tourism and cross-border regional development: insights in European contexts," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(6), pages 1013-1033, June.
    2. Naomi Moswete & Brijesh Thapa & William K. Darley, 2020. "Local Communities’ Attitudes and Support Towards the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in Southwest Botswana," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-17, February.
    3. Mihai TALMACIU & Irina Teodora MANOLESCU & Stanislav PERCIC, 2020. "The Implications Of European Neighbourhood Policy On Sustainable Development Of Tourism In Eastern European Countries," EURINT, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 7, pages 9-26.
    4. Maoh, Hanna F. & Khan, Shakil A. & Anderson, William P., 2016. "Truck movement across the Canada–US border: The effects of 9/11 and other factors," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 12-21.
    5. Yuwei Xiao & Shan Jiang & Zhenxin Zhang, 2025. "Spatio-Temporal Tourist Behavior (STTB) under digital footprints: a systematic literature review," Information Technology & Tourism, Springer, vol. 27(3), pages 517-545, September.
    6. Hugo Padrón-Ávila & Raúl Hernández-Martín, 2019. "Preventing Overtourism by Identifying the Determinants of Tourists’ Choice of Attractions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-17, September.
    7. Stoffelen, Arie, 2024. "A REVIEW OF TOURISM AND BORDERING PROCESSES: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on tourism and territorial borders," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    8. Robert G. Aykroyd & Víctor Leiva & Carolina Marchant, 2018. "Multivariate Birnbaum-Saunders Distributions: Modelling and Applications," Risks, MDPI, vol. 6(1), pages 1-25, March.
    9. Stoffelen, Arie, 2018. "Tourism trails as tools for cross-border integration: A best practice case study of the Vennbahn cycling route," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 91-102.
    10. Assoc. Prof.Dr Filloreta Madani & Assoc. Prof.Dr Evelina Bazini, 2017. "Development of the Life Insurance Market in Albania," European Journal of Economics and Business Studies Articles, Revistia Research and Publishing, vol. 3, ejes_v3_i.
    11. Bei Wu & Brenda Ivette Garcia Maya & Nikolaos Limnios, 2021. "Using Semi-Markov Chains to Solve Semi-Markov Processes," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 1419-1431, December.
    12. José María Martín Martín & Sara Calvo Martínez & José Manuel Guaita Martínez & Domingo Enrique Ribeiro Soriano, 2022. "RETRACTED ARTICLE: Qualitative analysis on the driving force behind upcycling practices associated with mobile applications: Circular economy perspective," Operations Management Research, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 647-661, December.
    13. Bu, Kyunghee & Kim, Donghoon & Son, Jungmin, 2013. "Is the culture–emotion fit always important?," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 66(8), pages 983-988.
    14. repec:ehu:cuader:49761 is not listed on IDEAS
    15. Adie, Bailey Ashton & Amore, Alberto, 2020. "Transnational World Heritage, (meta)governance and implications for tourism: An Italian case," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    16. Habibi, Fateh & Abdul Rahim, Khalid & Chin, Lee, 2008. "United Kingdom and United States Tourism Demand for Malaysia:A Cointegration Analysis," MPRA Paper 13590, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    17. Siti Sabrina Imji Rahim & Mohd Ikbal Mohd Huda, 2024. "National Security Council (NSC) Role in Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Effectiveness, Domestic Political Interference and Coordination of Inter-Agency and Central/State NSC," Journal of Public Administration and Governance, Macrothink Institute, vol. 14(1), pages 132151-1321, December.
    18. Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu & Devadason, Evelyn & Sundararaja, Sivachandralingam, 2013. "Cross-Border Shopping: Examining Motivations from the Perspective of Bruneian Visitors in Limbang, Malaysia," Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, vol. 47(1), pages 21-30.
    19. José Manuel Sánchez Martín & Juan Ignacio Rengifo Gallego & Luz María Martín Delgado, 2018. "Tourist Mobility at the Destination Toward Protected Areas: The Case-Study of Extremadura," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-19, December.
    20. Koun Sugimoto & Kei Ota & Shohei Suzuki, 2019. "Visitor Mobility and Spatial Structure in a Local Urban Tourism Destination: GPS Tracking and Network analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-17, February.
    21. Stoffelen, Arie & Ioannides, Dimitri & Vanneste, Dominique, 2017. "Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 126-138.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:236-:d:195034. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.