With the approach of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games and the implementation of the strategy of "encouraging 300 million people to participate in winter sports", China's ice-snow tourism has developed rapidly and become an emerging driving industry of winter tourism in northern China. China's ice-snow industry has entered a stage of rapid development. This paper summarizes the research progress of ice-snow tourism at home and abroad. Currently, China's ice-snow tourism is still in the initial development stage with a short ice-snow industrial supply chain, low return, and weak driving effect on relevant industries and regional economic and social development. Based on this, in view of the shortcomings of China's ice-snow tourism research and from the perspectives of comprehensive ice-snow resources, large-scale ice-snow consumption, large ice-snow industry, large regional layout, and large-scale system coordination, this paper discusses the high-quality development model of China's comprehensive ice-snow tourism. It is proposed to promote the interconnection effect of ice-snow tourism that is driven by multiple factors and extensively interconnected on the core leading industries and relevant auxiliary industries such as ice-snow contest performance, ice-snow cultural creativity, ice-snow equipment manufacturing, ice-snow education and training, ice-snow leisure and entertainment. Through extensive economic and technological interconnections as well as forward, backward, and horizontal interconnections among industries, industrial and interregional input-output effects, we can build China's comprehensive ice-snow tourism industry system, cultivate the whole industry chain of comprehensive ice-snow tourism, build a comprehensive ice-snow tourism product system, and shape China's characteristic ice-snow cultural brand. We can also promote the formation of a green, low-carbon, and circular development pattern of China's comprehensive ice-snow tourism industry, and meet the growing consumption demand of tourists for comprehensive ice-snow tourism, achieve high-quality development of regional economic, social and ecological coordination. This paper aims to enrich and expand the connotation and extension of ice-snow tourism and provide decision-making insights for the green, healthy, and high-quality development of ice-snow tourism in China.

Under the call of "motivating 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" and the historic opportunity of the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's ice and snow sports industry is facing a new development opportunity. Since the snow and ice sports industry and cultural tourism industry can complement each other and consider practical demand, this paper studies the dynamic mechanism and modes of the integrated development of the snow and ice sports industry and cultural tourism industry in Beijing from the perspective of industry integration theory. The research shows that: external environment support force, market demand pull force, and market supply force interact with each other, forming a dynamic mechanism of the integrated development of the two industries. Under the action of dynamic mechanism and due to the different docking forms and characteristics, Beijing ice and snow sports industry and cultural tourism industry have three integrated development modes: extension, infiltration, and reorganization, which promote a series of new business forms. This paper puts forward some suggestions on the integration path for further strengthening the extension integration, infiltration integration, and reorganization integration of the two industries.

The global ski industry shows rapid development and uneven spatial pattern. In this study, spatial analysis and statistical methods were used to analyze the spatial and temporal evolution of the global ski industry based on 4 characteristic indicators: total skiing visitors, number of ski resorts, ski resort equipment upgrading, and venues of Winter Olympics. The results show that the Alpine region of Europe is still the main agglomeration area of the global ski industry in the world, followed by America and Northeast Asia. The global ski resort equipment upgrade level presents a trend of continuous optimization. The Winter Olympic Games have a significant influence on the development of the global ski industry. The host of the Winter Olympic Games has moved from the core region of Western Europe to Northeast Asia. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a certain impact on the global ski industry, with the total number of skiing visitors worldwide in 2020 decreasing by 17.1% compared with that in 2019. Taking the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing as an opportunity, measures such as China's "three hundred million people participating in the ice and snow campaign", building state-level ski resorts, and actively preparing for the Winter Olympics to welcome participants from various countries will effectively alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on the global ski industry. It will also promote the sustainable and high-quality development of the global snow industry and accelerate the growth of East Asia as the growth pole of the global ski industry.

The five provinces in Northwest China are rich in ice and snow resources. They have a long history of ice and snow sports and culture, as well as superior ice and snow tourism resources and development foundations. Taking 125 ski resorts in the five provinces of Northwest China in 2019 as the research objects, this paper reveals the spatial differentiation characteristics of ski resorts in the study area from the perspectives of spatial distribution density, regional differentiation characteristics, and spatial autocorrelation by using geographical research methods such as nearest neighbor index, nuclear density, spatial autocorrelation, hot spot analysis, and imbalance index in ArcGIS 10.8. Based on the two dimensions of supply and consumption, this paper analyzes its influencing factors and discusses the future development strategies. The research shows that: (1) The ski resorts in the five provinces of Northwest China show the characteristics of "double core and agglomeration" (the two high-density regions are central Shaanxi and northern Xinjiang respectively. The spatial autocorrelation is obvious, and the distribution of cold and hot spots shows the non-random distribution characteristics of "hot in Northwest and Southeast, cold in central region". (2) The distribution of ski resorts in the five provinces of Northwest China is affected by many factors. The core influencing factors are the supply factors represented by the endowment conditions of ice and snow resources and the basis of traffic accessibility, and the consumption factors represented by the level of regional economic development, urban radiation, and consumption market. Therefore, it is suggested that the five provinces in Northwest China should take the new development of China's ice and snow tourism as strategic goal, build a "multi-point continuous" spatial development structure, enlarge the comprehensive utilization efficiency of core resources, build a new model of multi-factor integrated development, strengthen regional cooperation and linkage development, and shape an international ice and snow tourism brand.

Traffic integration is important for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. It can promote the high-quality development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. The preparations for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games have greatly promoted the construction and improvement of the cross-regional transportation infrastructure network between Beijing and Zhangjiakou. It not only integrates the winter sports industry in the Beijing-Zhangjiakou area in the short term but also promotes the resources flow in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the post-Winter Olympic era. It also promotes coordinated economic and social development. Spatial design network analysis (sDNA) and spatial statistical analysis models were used to quantitatively analyze the Beijing-Zhangjiakou transportation network during the XXIV Olympic Winter Games. The role of the Winter Olympics transportation system construction in enhancing traffic integration and promoting coordinated economic and social development was systematically evaluated. The results are as follows: (1) Due to the construction of the road system for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, the transportation network system in the Zhangjiakou-Beijing area has been optimized and expanded, and the main connection channel with the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway as the core has been formed, which effectively improved the originally relatively less integrated road network structure of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Zhangjiakou and Beijing are now within a “one-hour living circle.” (2) The functionality of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei node cities was enhanced, the traffic accessibility of Hengshui, Qinhuangdao, Cangzhou, and Zhangjiakou was significantly improved, and the status of Yanqing and Zhangjiakou as transportation centers was effectively elevated. (3) The future network of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei transportation system is shifted from "Beijing-Shijiazhuang-Baoding" to "Beijing-Tangshan-Qinhuangdao," promoting the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei airports, seaports, and land ports, continuously expanding and deepening into the hinterland of Hebei, and further promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Based on the above findings, we further proposed measures to further optimize the transportation network structure: (1) closing the traffic links between cities and towns, and improving the overall road network accessibility; (2) optimizing the Beijing-Zhangjiakou transportation network structure, undertaking the transfer of "non-capital functions," and continuing the comprehensive benefits of the road system for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games; (3) refining and improving the transportation network in northern Hebei and southern Hebei, and strengthening the construction of Beijing-Chengde and Beijing-Qinhuangdao main channels. This research will provide a scientific basis and decision-making reference for the scientific planning and improvement of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei transportation integrated development pattern in the post-Winter Olympics Games era.

The ecological development of ice and snow tourism is an important part of China’s construction of a green and low-carbon circular economic system. It is of great strategic significance to the development and revitalization of the Three-North regions in China, the construction of Beautiful China, and the success of the Winter Olympics. Based on the research paradigms of normative analysis and empirical analysis, this study analyzes the ecological development scope of ice and snow tourism and its ecological environmental dependence, as well as evaluates the regional ecological footprint of ice and snow tourism and its ecological environmental impact mechanism. The research shows that the development of ice and snow tourism in China is rapid and the trend of ecological development is evident, but there are still some outstanding problems: the development of ice and snow tourism is in ecological surplus on the whole, but some key areas are in ecological deficit and exceed the upper limit of the reception capacity of ice and snow tourism. Some key snow and ice tourism regions are still on the left side of the tipping point of the economy-environment curve. The ecological environmental pressure may grow higher. The development of ice and snow tourism is facing ecological environmental problems such as excessive resource consumption, vegetation destruction, soil erosion, thawing mudflow, water pollution, and so on. Finally, this study explores and puts forward ecological development paths of ice and snow tourism. It is urgent to increase the ecological scale and efficiency of ice and snow tourism and strengthen territorial space control, so as to construct an ecological innovation system of ice and snow tourism.

With the upgrading of national consumption, ski vacation has become a new hot spot of winter tourism consumption. Management elements and management philosophy are necessary for the successful development of tourism destinations. In order to better enhance the competitiveness of ski resorts in China, interviews with 11 heads of tourism departments and ski enterprises from 6 countries that have strong ice and snow industries were conducted. This study used grounded theory and content analysis methods to identify the basic elements and core competitiveness of successful operation of ski resorts from the supply side. Talent professionalism, experience, heterogeneous development, sustainable innovation, and green development are found as the five major business philosophies. It is suggested that from the aspects of local sense construction, tourist experience, market cultivation, and ecological protection, we should improve the system of management factors, enhance market competitiveness, and promote the high-quality development of ski resorts in China.

From both the supply and demand sides, this article discusses the impact of the Beijing Winter Olympics on China's ski industry. The article predicts the development trends of China's ski industry after the Winter Olympics, providing references for the theoretical research and practical development of China's ski industry. The results show that: China's ski market is at a rapid growth stage, and the Covid-19 pandemic has not changed the long-term positive trend. After Winter Olympics, policy legacies will continue to benefit the public, ski consumers will become younger, and industry development will become more standardized. The digital operation and all-season operation will receive more attention. The ski market in China will continue to grow. It is estimated that in 2030, the number of ski visits in China will reach 57 million, and the market will be gradually transformed from beginner market to leisure vacation market. The ski industry will enter into a period of stable development.