The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has brought enormous impacts and challenges to global tourism. How to cope with the pandemic has become the focus of attention. This paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism of China from the aspects of residents' travel willingness, tourist site space capacity, operation of tourism market entities, and tourism policy supply. The research results show that: (1) The pandemic has greatly impacted residents' consumer confidence, willingness, and ability to travel, but the potential travel demand still exists. (2) The pandemic has caused great physical and psychological compression to the tourism space environment. The production space capacity of the cultural industry and the entertainment industry, which are closely related to tourism, has also been indirectly affected. (3) The pandemic has had a comprehensive and far-reaching impact on the tourism industry chain and the operation of tourism market entities. (4) Under the normalization of pandemic prevention and control, the tourism policy has mainly been based on "flow control" and "industry rescue". Eventually, based on the response system, spatial response mechanism, and the resilience of tourism enterprises, the responses of China's tourism industry to the pandemic are explored. First, the trinity response system of tourism to resist the pandemic should be constructed from the three dimensions of hierarchical government support, management department drive, and industry organization coordination. Second, the spatial response mechanism of the tourism system based on the three-level collaborative destination (point) - link (line) - network structure (network) under the normalization of pandemic prevention and control is proposed. Third, the countermeasures to enhance the resilience of tourism enterprises are put forward from five aspects: enterprise organization, product service, management and the marketing, and market brand and employee psychology.

Tourism geography, which emerged during the great development of applied geography in the 1980s, cannot now sufficiently support the rapid development of tourist industry due to its short period of development and insufficient theoretical and methodological systems. Therefore, the development of tourist industry urgently needs the knowledge of related more developed disciplines. Phenology is a branch of geography that has an intersection with tourism geography, and it has a very close relationship with tourist industry. The paper systematically reviews the role of phenology in supporting the tourism system, its applications in five specific industrial fields, the role in promoting six dimensions of the high-quality development of tourism, and the influence of climate change on phenological tourism resources and related industries. The analysis shows that: (1) The concept of phenology can help to integrate the tourism resources of natural, human, and social elements in the tourism system. The application of phenology in the tourism industry can effectively improve the service support sub-systems, transportation sub-systems, and medical and health sub-system. (2) The practical application of phenology in the tourist industry mainly involves plant landscape design, determination of ornamental tourism season, ornamental phenology forecasting, time planning for eco-tourism activities, pollen concentration forecasting, ice and snow disaster warning, and tourist route design. (3) Phenology supports six dimensions of high-quality development of tourism, including element, industry, process, time and space, direction, and participating sector. (4) Phenological tourism resources and related industrial links are sensitive to climate change. In the future, studies should focus on the risks of climate change in different climate scenarios and in-depth analysis of the influences on the perceptions and behavior of tourists. Phenological change should be integrated into medium and long-term industrial development plans and industry reports. From the perspectives of disciplinary development and industrial application, phenology can provide theoretical basis for tourism research, as well as practical guidance for the sustainable development of tourism in the context of climate change.

Since 1978, tourism geography research in China has been characterized by "the gradual improvement of theoretical framework, the strengthening of applied research, the maturity of research methods, the wide application of new technologies, the comprehensive multidisciplinary research, and the expansion of international academic exchanges." Based on the newest research and development of the tourism geography in China and current national and social needs, the new research topics of tourism geography in China were discussed in this article. The topics include: the pattern and evolution of tourism destination system, mechanism of tourism development in the context of the differentiation of natural and humanities environment, tourism ecological civilization construction and regional tourism resources protection and utilization, the regional pattern of tourists flow and behavior and a "dual circulation" development pattern, the spatial-temporal relationship between tourism and regional development and the mechanism of balanced development, geography factor in the high quality development of Chinese tourism industry, tourism destination multi-source information integration and decision support system construction.

Cross-culture, cross-discipline, and cross-field research in tourism geography has become a new trend. How we promote multi-culture, multi-discipline, and multi-field research has become a key issue in tourism geography research that needs to be solved urgently. This article focuses on the cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary, and cross-field perspectives of tourism geography research. Firstly, the importance of cross-culture communication in tourism geography research from a macro level is discussed. Secondly, the explanatory power of cross-discipline research in the phenomenon of tourism geography from the disciplinary level is demonstrated. Finally, the unique role of cross-field research in exploring new trends in tourism development from the field level is analyzed. This article holds that the focuses of Chinese tourism geography research should adhere to the spirit of openness, inclusiveness, and diversity; closely integrate with China's economic and social development practices in the new era; and develop tourism geography with Chinese characteristics.

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, informatization and globalization have brought tremendous technological progress and irreversible environmental changes, which lead to inevitable transformation and development of traditional villages. During the process, how do we preserve and continue the culture nature of traditional villages but also reconstruct the cultural ecology to adapt to the new environmental changes is the core task in the new era of research on protection and utilization. This paper used literature analysis and retrieved the literature on traditional village cultural ecology research from CNKI and web of science databases. Taken into consideration of the system and practice of the national cultural ecological protection area, this paper comprehensively elaborates the concept of traditional village cultural ecology from the perspective of culture and ecosystem. It further explores the meaning of cultural ecological adaptability of traditional villages, the evolution process of cultural ecological system, cultural ecological balance regulation, and cultural ecological adaptability management. Based on this, the idea of refining the cultural characteristics and cultural core of traditional villages was proposed. The method of evaluating the ecological adaptability of traditional village culture, and the mode of optimizing the regional systematic protection and utilization of traditional village cultural ecology were suggested. The findings offer implications for systematically solving the problem of cultural ecological imbalance in traditional villages, encouraging local research of cultural ecology in the protection and utilization of traditional villages in China, and promoting China's rural revitalization.

Grasping key factors that affect the perceived value of tourists is helpful to promote the competitiveness of tourism destinations. Taking Beihai Silver Beach National Tourism Resort in Guangxi as the research case, this study used the online reviews from Beihai Silver Beach tourists on Crip as the research sample and adopted grounded theory method to construct the influencing factor model of coastal tourists' perceived value. Five main categories and 18 corresponding categories were identified. This study also used DEMATEL model of complex system to construct the relationship matrix of the factors affecting the perceived value of coastal tourists. The key factors influencing the perceived value of coastal tourists were identified. Study found that resources and environment, management and protection, facilities and services, emotion and cost value constitute an important dimension of tourist perceived value in seaside tourism destinations. Weather conditions, beach scale, beach management and protection, tourists' pleasure, entertainment attractions, tourism infrastructure, and service are the key influencing factors of seaside tourism destination tourists' perceived value. Accordingly, some suggestions are put forward to improve the perceived value of tourists in coastal tourism destinations in China.

A harmonious relationship between human and animal is key to the sustainable development of wildlife tourism. This study starts from animal ethics, takes online reviews as data source, and uses text mining, social network analysis, and IPA model analysis methods to analyze the differences in the embodied experience of tourists in wildlife tourist attractions with different ethical orientations. Conclusion are as follow: (1) Different ethical orientations affect the operation mode of wildlife tourism attractions. (2) From the perspective of embodied theory, wildlife tourism experience is multidimensional and complex that includes physical, situational, and cognitive-emotional experiences. Three layers and six dimensions are identified. (3) Because of the differences in the supply of wildlife tourism attractions with different ethical orientations, there is a structural difference between cognitive-based and physical-based tourist experiences.

Travel itinerary is affected by the spatial distance between destinations, tourism experience and traffic conditions. The traditional travel itinerary design is mainly based on the spatial distance between destinations with the application of ant colony algorith. Based on ant colony algorithm and Pareto optimal model, this paper constructs a multi-objective optimal tourism route planning and design method considering the factors of spatial distance between destinations, weather conditions and transportation. Through MATLAB simulation experiment, with the fixed travel time, the improved method is comprehensively evaluated from the perspectives of spatial distance, traffic experience index and browsing experience index (based on weather conditions). The results show that in the experiments of multiple tourist cities (scenic spots), the traditional ant colony algorithm sacrifices a lot of optimization of the two indexes in order to obtain the shortest distance. Although the improved ant colony algorithm increases the route distance, tourists can obtain more tourism experiences, which verifies the effectiveness of multi-objective optimal tourism itinerary planning and design under the Pareto optimal model.

Actively responding to global climate change and resolutely implementing the "dual-carbon" goal proposed by the CPC Central Committee are important missions for the high-quality development of China's tourism industry. Based on the carbon emission evaluation of China's tourism industry from 1990 to 2020, this paper forecasts future carbon emission from 2021 to 2060, and subsequently analyzes the major challenges, tasks, and approach. The results show that: (1) China's tourism carbon emission history can be divided into four stages. The carbon emission structure shows prominent features, with tourism transportation and leisure vacation as the main body. Only with the promotion of low-carbon emission can we achieve the carbon peaking target of tourism industry in 2030-2035 during the post epidemic era and reduce the resistance to carbon neutrality. (2) China’s tourism industry faces 5 major challenges in achieving the "dual-carbon" goal, including rapid growth of tourism carbon emissions, threats from global climate changes, fuzzy carbon emission boundaries, strong demand for quality tourism, and insufficient carbon reduction technologies. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the major tasks from 3 dimensions: macro - industry, meso - destination and enterprise, and micro - tourists, as well as adhere to the 5 development principles, including overall coordination, adapting measures to local conditions, respecting laws, promoting science and technology, and differentiation. (3) The approach to China's tourism "dual-carbon" goal in the context of high-quality development should incorporate three aspects: supply side, consumption side, and policy support. On the supply side, it is critical to accelerate the adjustment of energy structure, increase the investment in carbon reduction technology, and enhance carbon sink capacity. On the supply side, it is critical to promote the carbon reduction of tourism consumption subjects, consumption sites, and service organizations. On the policy support, it is critical to accelerate the improvement and innovation of low-carbon policies. Based on the research frontier of achieving the "dual-carbon" goal of China's tourism industry, this paper preliminarily establishes the theory of tourism "dual-carbon" and enriches the theory of low-carbon tourism, which will provide decision-making insights for achieving the "dual-carbon" goal of China's tourism industry in the context of high-quality development.

The characteristics of business formats in historical and cultural blocks are the embodiment of market law. Based on the survey data of Taiping District in Changsha, supplemented by relevant data of internet platform, this paper classifies commercial types of Taiping District in Changsha, analyzes the characteristics of the business formats from multiple perspectives, and discusses the influencing factors of those formats by using disordered multi-classification logistic regression. The results of this study are revealed as follows: (1) The business types of shops in historical and cultural blocks can be optimized into five categories: catering, shopping, accommodation, sightseeing and entertainment, and others, which contains fifteen sub-categories. (2) The horizontal spatial distribution of formats shows a phenomenon of flower arrangement distribution pattern in the scale of shops, and the diversification characteristics of pairwise combination of business formats. The vertical spatial distribution shows that the number of shops and types of business formats decrease from low level to high level, while the scale of shops increases from low level to high level. As the floors increase, the diversity of formats weakens whilst the centralization of formats intensifies. (3) The spatial agglomeration of formats shows the vertical distribution clustering phenomenon at the entrance and the end of streets, and the “agglomeration-differentiation” phenomenon of the scale of shops. (4) The scale of shop, the type of street and the representative level of collective memory have a significant effect on the types of the formats, the layout of beverage shops, snack shops, clothing shops, specialty shops and accommodation shops is significantly correlated with the type of street; the layout of specialty shops, jewelry shops and accommodation shops is significantly correlated with the scale of shop; the layout of clothing shops and entertainment shops is significantly correlated with the representation level of collective memory.

In the era of mass tourism, the development of China's tourism industry is entering a period of great change and adjustment, which requires us to re-examine the transformation of China's tourism geography research based on the basic national conditions of China's tourism industry. The paper holds that the internationalization of tourism geography research in China is an important trend, and this internationalization also promotes the process of research localization to a certain extent. On the whole, the research of tourism geography with Chinese characteristics should be rooted in the major needs of tourism industry to realize the transformation. In terms of the research object, it should be expanded from the research of typical tourism destination to the research of optimization of recreation space. In terms of research focus, it should be gradually transformed from the study of tourism elements to the study of process simulation and the prediction of complex regional system of tourism destination. In terms of research paradigm, it should be further improved from the disconnection between existing theoretical research and planning practice to the effective link of "theoretical research-planning practice-policy application". In this process, foreign tourism geography research can provide important reference for China's tourism geography research.

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.

Recreational fishery is the combination of traditional fishery, tourism, and leisure industry. It is also a new branch of tourism research. Recreational fishery plays an important role in innovating the forms of tourism development and promoting the construction of the "Beautiful Countryside". This study used recreational fishery papers published in the core journals of CNKI database, CSSCI, and CSCD as data sources, and the bibliometric software CiteSpace to analyze and draw knowledge maps. Findings show that the recreational fishery research development of our country has experienced two stages: initial exploration stage and rising development stage. Multi-disciplinary participation and research framework have been basically formed. Research contents focus on the development pathway of recreational fishery. Meanwhile, the meaning of the concept, resource development and evaluation, product expression forms, developmental benefits, management, and marketing strategy of recreational fishery, are also the areas where scholars pay attention to. Finally, considering the background of leisure fishery in China, this paper put forward the following five developmental insights to the future study on fishery: constructing native theory system, incorporating research fields with national strategic policies to broaden research ideas, focusing on "people-fishing" relationship changes, investigating leisure fishery's green low carbon pattern, making the research on developmental issues as the main line.

Mountain scenic area is important destinations to tourists, in which the activities are related to the safety of mountain ecosystem. Constructing ecological security pattern in mountain scenic area is important for protecting key species in the ecosystem and maintaining the overall function of the ecosystem. It is also an important guarantee for the sustainable development of the scenic area. This study chose Yunqiu Mountain Scenic Area as a case study and representative rare animal - Crossoptilon Mantchuricum in Lvliang mountains as study objects. GIS method was used to extract the ecological source areas of Crossoptilon Mantchuricum. Ecological corridors were identified, and ecological network was constructed using Minimum Cumulative Resistance (MCR) model and gravity model. Moreover, the connectivity and sensitivity of the ecological network were analyzed and suggestions for optimization were proposed. The results show that: the overall size of the Yunqiu Mountain ecological source area is relatively small, and the spatial distribution is uneven. There is a medium level of network connectivity, at the center of which there are many corridors between source areas, forming a mash-shape connection. While corridors between source areas on the edge of the network are simple, forming a tree-shape connection. According to the sensitivity evaluation criteria, the scenic area is divided into extremely sensitive area, highly sensitive area, moderately sensitive area, slightly sensitive area, and insensitive area. The overall sensitivity of the area where the ecological network locates is low, but there still exist high-risk nodes. Considering the different sensitivity levels of areas where the ecological network locates, this paper proposes three suggestions for optimization: Interference Reduction Protection, Recovery Protection, and Construction Protection. This research provides scientific-basis for protecting the ecology of the Yunqiu Mountain Scenic Area.

Ecotourism is an important branch of tourism research. Under the influence and cultivation of the concept of sustainable development and the practice of ecological civilization construction, China has made considerable progress in the theoretical research and practice of ecotourism in the past 30 years. Chinese Core Journals of the CNKI database and CSSCI source journals were selected in this study. The literature received high attention, keywords, authors, and journals characteristics were analyzed. Using CiteSpace knowledge mapping analysis and considering the development of ecotourism practice, ecotourism research in China was divided into three stages in this study. The exploring stage mainly focuses on the understanding of concepts and principle of ecotourism. The development stage mainly includes the nature protected area, ecotourism development, and ecological development. The deepening stage includes more topics and involves more national strategies such as rural vitalization and ecological civilization. Finally, the paper forecasts the future trend of China's ecotourism research from seven aspects: the basic theory and research framework; the health value and knowledge of ecotourism destination; systemic research for typical regions, such as Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and protected areas; ecotourist behaviour and market cultivation; environmental, social, and economic impacts by ecotourism and their evolution rules; integration between ecotourism and local culture; management technique and community participation.

In the era of mobile internet, there is a new competitive pattern and trend in short-form video marketing among tourism destinations. However, there has not been a systematic investigation on how short-form videos produce and market the tourism destination images. Starting from the meaning of short videos to people's life experience and existence, this paper took Wuzhen as an example, selected 8 popular short-form videos (4 official videos and 4 influencer videos) on the Douyin platform, and used comprehensive methods including netnography and field survey to analyze the thematic characteristics of Wuzhen’s tourism destination images in short-form videos. The results indicate that: (1) In terms of constituent elements of the tourism destination images, both official videos and influencer videos highly emphasize the outstanding universal value (OUV) of Wuzhen’s heritage value, natural ecological environment, and humanistic connotations. Besides that, the official videos also incorporate the nostalgic feeling of “home”. (2) In terms of thematic significance of the tourism destination images, Wuzhen is characterized as a place with three meanings, the taohuayuan (literally, peach blossom spring) — an ideal and utopic land of peace away from the turmoil of the world; the unique cultural “alien space”, and the “sacred nostalgic place” that allows people to calm down. (3) In terms of the production mechanism of the destination image, the official video emphasizes the “constructed authenticity”, and its anchor point is “beauty”; while the influencer video emphasizes the “objective authenticity”, and its anchor point is “truth”. This study provides a feasible analytical framework of “constituent elements + thematic meaning + authenticity” for video image data analysis: frame should be seen as the analysis unit; the conclusions should be interpreted around its thematic significance in the sense of being; and authenticity is the fundamental topic that cannot be avoided in video image data analysis. This study also points out that compared with the official channels, tourism managers need to pay attention to the value and role of internet influencers in contemporary short-form video tourism marketing.

Leisure fishing and maritime tourism serve as an important orientation for fishermen’s livelihood transformation. Therefore, it is of great significance theoretically and practically to investigate the influencing factors in the process of fishermen’s livelihood transformation, and fishermen’s decision on tactics selection. This paper adopts the push-pull theory and sustainable livelihood framework to study the factors that influence fishermen’s livelihood transformation and to uncover the veil of fishermen’s livelihood reconstruction through tourism. Qualitative data were collected in Xiangshan, Ningbo, through interviews and no-participatory observations. The research findings indicate that: (1) The push factors including functional change of natural capital, the change of human capital, the upgrade of physical capital and the dysfunction of cultural capital from the “fishery livelihood mode” and the pull factors including policy support, improvement of job environment, the optimization of family relationship and attachment to maritime culture from the “tourism livelihood mode” are leveraged to promote the transformation. (2) The livelihood capitals of sea-lost fishermen include natural capital, human capital, social capital, financial capital, physical capital and psychological capital; yet, the absence of psychological capital in the framework hinders the livelihood transformation. (3) The sea-lost fishermen have four types of tactics to cope with the livelihood transformation according to the matrix of livelihood capital’s coverage and richness: escape, exploration, focus, and innovation. The paper theoretically extends the application of sustainable livelihood theory, identifies the factors that affect sea-lost fishermen’s livelihood transformation, and verifies the possibility and unique value of the livelihood transformation via practicing tourism.

In order to achieve the high-quality development of transportation and tourism integration in China in the context of building national strength in transportation, it is of great significance to recognize the development context and future trend of the research on the integration of transportation and tourism in China, and to promote the innovation of theories and methods. Results show that: the number of papers on transport and tourism integration is increasing. Themes become further diversified and deepened and show the characteristics of an increasing intersection of multi-disciplines. The domestic research on the integration of transportation and travel shows three stages: the initial exploration stage from 1998 to 2006, the rapid development stage from 2007 to 2014, and the prosperity and development stage from 2015 to 2021. The research topics are mainly related to: (1) the layout and accessibility evaluation of tourism facilities; (2) the interaction between air transport and tourism development; (3) the reconstruction of the spatial pattern of high-speed railway and regional tourism; (4) the analysis of tourism flow and tourists' travel behavior; (5) the travel characteristics of tourism traffic under the disturbance of epidemic situation; (6) the integration of development path and product design. Based on the development trend of the discipline and the changes of the tourism market, the future research on the integration of transportation and tourism should focus on: (1) the theoretical innovation of the research on the integration of high-quality collaborative development; (2) the research on the cross-integration of traffic and tourism information technology; (3) the research on the adaptation of comprehensive three-dimensional traffic network oriented to the integration of transportation and tourism; (4) the reconstruction of high-speed traffic to tourism regional system; (5) the research on the patterns of tourists' travel behavior supported by big data; (6) evaluation of environmental effects of tourism traffic resources; (7) theory and practice of transport and tourism integration product design.

The scientific protection of national parks and the high-quality development of tourism are major practical needs and important scientific topics facing the construction of national park systems. On the basis of explaining the characteristics of high-quality development of national parks, theoretical thinking and interdisciplinary dialogues are conducted on theoretical and practical issues such as ecological protection, eco-tourism, franchising, protection mode, interpretation system, ecological industry, community participation, and management system of national parks. The analysis believes that: (1) scientific research is the cornerstone of the scientific protection of national parks and the high-quality development of tourism. (2) Ecotourism is an important way to realize the value of ecological products in national parks. Its necessary conditions are factor support system, franchise system and key policy breakthrough. (3) Franchise and franchise system are the protection mechanism. It is the inevitable trend of future development from tourism franchise to community franchise, biotechnology franchise, infrastructure franchise and regional joint franchise. (4) Community participation is the basic guarantee for the high-quality development of national parks. Channel expansion, capacity improvement, co-construction and sharing are important ways to improve the quality of community participation. (5) Cultural service is an important part of the multiple functions of national parks. The construction of scientific interpretation system, physical platform and virtual platform is conducive to promoting the supply of cultural services and the realization of social and cultural values.

Tourist behavior has long been one of the most researched themes in tourism literature. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous strikes and challenges to the global tourism industry. Within this context, an increasing number of studies related to both tourist behaviors and the COVID-19 pandemic have been published in English-language journals. Despite critical discussions on COVID-19 related tourism studies on a whole, preceding review studies have largely failed to specifically and systematically assess the up-to-date progress of and substantive contributions made by COVID-19 related tourist behavior studies. Based on an analysis of 83 articles published in the top 8 SSCI listed academic journals in the field of tourism as of 31 August, 2021, the following conclusions are drawn. First, the extant studies could be categorized, according to their research themes, into four clusters, namely risk perception and travel intention, tourism decision-making, actual behaviors and experience, and attitude towards technology. Second, quantitative studies are dominant in article number, most of which are in favor of either questionnaire surveys or experiments. Third, with respect to substantive contributions, significant theoretical contributions are rarely made in the extant studies, most of which are found approaching solving real-world problems and/or depicting consumer phenomena, instead of building theories. Specifically, those sampled studies were using a theory (or theories) either to help develop hypotheses regarding the relationships between well-known concepts or to help describe and/or interpret an alleged novel consumer phenomenon. As such, it is suggested at the end of this article that future studies could benefit greatly from more rigorous conceptualization and theorization by using qualitative methods, big data techniques, and experiments in their excavation, identification, and confirmation of the uniqueness of the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health crisis as well as the associated distinctive tourism consumer phenomena. Further, indigenized tourist behavior research related to COVID-19, which is deeply rooted in the pandemic prevention and control practices and tourism development in China, should be highly encouraged.

Forest is a kind of tourism landscape resources with ecological aesthetic value, and forest village is an important type of countryside. It is of great significance to scientifically understand the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of national forest village for the construction of rural ecological civilization, the sustainable development of rural tourism and the implementation of rural revitalization goals.The first batch of 3947 national forest villages in China were taken as the research objects in this study. The spatial distribution characteristics of national forest village were analyzed by mathematical statistics and ArcGIS spatial analysis technology. The influencing factors were examined by using Geodetector. The results are summarized as follows: (1) The spatial distribution of national forest villages was a typical agglomeration type and the overall distribution was unbalanced with “Hu Line” as the obvious boundary, showing the distribution characteristics of "dense in the east while sparse in the west." (2) The spatial distribution of national forest villages also displayed as "multi-core agglomeration and contiguous distribution," forming three high-density contiguous areas with the widest radiation range: the Taihang Mountains in the border area of Henan, Shanxi, and Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui intersecting area, and Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian intersecting area. (3) Landform, river, Endowment of forest resources, population scale, economic development level, and transportation location were the main influencing factors of the national forest villages spatial distribution. Influenced by natural environmental factors and socioeconomic factors, national forest villages were mainly distributed in plain and hilly areas, areas with dense river networks, areas with high forest coverage rate, and more developed areas with dense population and advanced transportation.

Wildlife tourism in the Asia-Pacific region has become popular and is expected to continue so after COVID-19. This paper provides a series of recommendations for sustainable development of wildlife tourism and discusses guidelines for wildlife viewing in the wild. Currently, wildlife viewing is based around biodiversity hotspots and iconic species. Opportunities for expanding viewing of plants and fungi are also discussed. Good practice criteria such as attention to effective protected area management, sound environmental policy, planning for growth in tourism numbers, management of overcrowding, tour guide training, attention to animal welfare, and monitoring the impacts of tourism on wildlife are considered. Promotion and marketing of wildlife tourism should also be highlighted. Key challenges include unsatisfactory protection of the wider environment, misinterpretation of what is required to achieve sustainability, and inadequate visitor management by park agencies and tour operators. The impact of COVID-19 on wildlife tourism provides the opportunity to reflect on previous wildlife tourism operations and to maintain and improve wildlife tourism in the future.

"Internet celebrity homestay" is a new phenomenon born in the trend of social life network in tourism and accommodation industry in recent years. What elements contribute to the making of celebrity homestay and how these elements affect tourists’ purchase intention are the topics to be studied in this paper. The study was first based on the notes of key opinion leaders on the Internet community "Xiaohongshu". The method of grounded theory was used to explore and summarize the elements of the Internet celebrity temperament of a homestay. Next, a questionnaire survey was conducted to verify the influence of these factors on the Internet word-of-mouth and the purchase intention of tourists. The research finds that: (1) The configuration, style design, surrounding environment, intuitive impression, psychological feeling, and travel form of homestay are the key elements of Internet celebrity temperament in terms of a homestay. (2) The elements of homestay online celebrity temperament positively affect the tourists' purchase intention. (3) "Internet word-of-mouth" plays a complete or partial mediating role as the mechanism in above relationship. This study enriches the theory of how the attractiveness elements of homestay facilities to form online word-of-mouth and then to influence purchase intention.

China has been accelerating the construction of a “dual circulation” development pattern, which takes the domestic market as the mainstay. The rapid development of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodations has drawn great academic attention, as it could improve the utilization rate of idle housing resources and expand the domestic tourism market demand. However, the geographic studies of P2P accommodation in China are relatively scant. Accordingly, this study sought to identify spatial clustering characteristics and explore influencing mechanism of P2P accommodations from a geographic perspective. Airbnb in Beijing was selected as the case study. Exploratory spatial analysis and Geodetector were employed. The findings suggested that: (1) Airbnb listings were gathered in the center of the city, and sparsely distributed in the peripheral areas. (2) Hot spots were clustered in and around the fourth ring road, and there were different degrees of spatial clustering between Airbnb and other related geographical elements. (3) The number of recreational facilitir, distance to the city center, and the number of public service facilities had stronger explanatory power. The explanation power of double-factor interactions were stronger than which of single factors. (4) The clustering characteristics of Airbnb in Beijing were the result of the coupling and interaction among various elements, namely the hosts, guests, government, and platform, and these elements affected in different forms and to different degrees. Theoretically, this paper deepen the research on the tourism accommodation industry in China. Practically, empirical evidence from this study has great implications for the layout of P2P accommodations and urban governance in the future.

Tourism is China’s strategic pillar industry. Building China into a tourism power is an important aspect indicating the rise of the country. Starting with the analysis of the experience of the world tourism powers, this paper investigates the factual basis, opportunities and challenges of China’s tourism development, and puts forward the connotation, objectives and strategic countermeasures of building the world tourism power with Chinese characteristics. China has a large territory and diversified natural landscapes, a long history and diversified cultural landscapes, a large population and massive economic output, a high degree of openness and a humanistic business environment, and a gradually mature and promising tourism industry. Thus, it is feasible to build a world tourism power, yet it also faces many challenges, which requires joint efforts from the aspects of politics, industry, academia and even society. We should actively learn from the experience of world tourism powers, improve laws and regulations related to tourism, build an efficient and powerful tourism development mechanism and system, promote the integration of culture and tourism, strengthen "tourism +" and expand "+ tourism", adhere to industry-city interaction and regional coordination, develop smart tourism via digital technology, and fully mobilize favorable factors at home and abroad to build a greater China tourism brand. In addition, we need to select and build a batch of world-class tourist attractions, tourist resorts and world tourism cities to ensure the achievement of the 14th Five-Year Plan for China National Tourism Development (2021-2025).

It is still controversial whether the development of tourism economy can promote common prosperity. Based on the inter-provincial panel data of China from 1999 to 2019, this paper adopts the dynamic spatial Durbin model to construct four spatial weight matrices with the dual perspectives of geographical and economic characteristics, and investigates the impact of tourism economic development on regional common prosperity and the spatial spillover effect. The results show that: (1) Both geographical and economic characteristics have impacts on the spatial effect of tourism economic development promoting common prosperity, yet economic characteristics have a greater impact. (2) The development of tourism economy has significantly promoted the development of common prosperity, which not only improves the overall level of prosperity, but also has the sharing effect that contributes to equality. However, the effect of growth, “making the cake bigger”, is stronger at present, and the spillover effect of tourism economy still has room for improvement in narrowing regional economic gap. (3) Tourism economic development level affects the industrial structure rationalization factor, which shows an inverted “U” shaped double threshold feature. We should actively promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure when the tourism economic development is at low level; and pay attention to the rationalization of industrial structure transformation and avoid industrial hollowing when the tourism economic development reached a higher level.

The tourism sector — once thought as a highly resilient industry that has seen immense growth in the past few decades and was envisioned to continue on this trajectory in the coming decades — has been faced with intense challenges since 2020 due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, numerous key issues that were originally considered in tourism geographies remain relevant — if not more so as a result of this global pandemic. This paper reviews the major areas of research in tourism geographies in the recent decade as a signal of what kinds of emphasis the subdiscipline should focus on in the coming decades. These include tourism's impact, influence, and relationships with sustainable development goals; climate change; making "better tourism" in the post-Covid world; shifting geographical dimensions of tourism in recent and coming decades; and the rapidly emerging digitalization of tourism services and social media's influence on tourism. From being marginalized in comparison to work and other subdisciplines in Geography, the pandemic has shown in numerous ways that leisure and tourism was never peripheral to begin with — it serves as an important economic industry, as much as it contributes to people's social well-being and imaginations of happiness. As tourism geographers, this offers numerous pressing research areas that must now be looked into.

Island tourism is a crucial field of international tourism research. An in-depth analysis of the evolution and key areas of international island tourism research is of great significance for improving island tourism research in the context of the "maritime power" strategy and the high-quality development of the industry within dual circulation development pattern. Using the Web of Science Core Collection as data source, a visual map analysis of 1 511 papers focusing on international island from 2000 to 2019 was conducted using CiteSpace. The method was also used to reveal the development and hotspots of the research. The conclusions are as follows: (1) Island tourism research showed three different development phases since 2000: slow development phase, steady development phase, and rapid development phase. The research content has gradually shifted from focusing on the ecological environmental impact of island tourism development to the sustainable development field, which is the relationship between people and islands. (2) International island tourism research showed consumption dependence and resource dependence. Research areas and research objects mainly focused on developed countries or countries with more island resources. Among them, the three most highly cited scholars were Gossling, Hall, and Scheyvens. Most of the articles were published in three fields: environmental science and ecology, coastal ocean science, and tourism. (3) The hotspots of island tourism research included resources and environment of island tourism destinations, island tourism and global climate change, island tourism market, the economic impact of island tourism, island tourism community, consumption behavior of island tourists, island tourism planning and management, and sustainable development of island tourism. China's island tourism research should take in international island tourism research methods and results to improve theories and research methods in island tourism, and to strengthen the research on island tourism resources and environment, island sustainable tourism, economy and cultural influence, island tourists' consumption behavior and other fields.

In recent years, the dark sky tourism market in China has been rapidly rising. However, little attention has been paid to this emerging type of tourism in domestic academia. In order to have a holistic understanding of international dark sky tourism development and research progress, this article employs the traditional literature analysis method to systematically sort out relevant studies published between 2001-2021. Based on the analysis of 62 English publications, results show that: (1) with the advancement of the global dark sky movement, the value of the starry dark sky for tourism has been utilised, and the dark sky programs for tourists have become mature in Western countries. (2) The empirical research on international dark sky tourism started in 2011, and the number of publications continues to grow. Qualitative and quantitative research has been developing simultaneously, but current research is mainly concentrated in developed countries and regions such as Europe and North America. (3) By analysing the umbrella concept of astro-tourism, this article has defined dark sky tourism and discussed its characteristics. (4) The progress of international dark sky tourism research mainly focuses on light pollution measurement and dark sky tourism development, multiple benefits of dark sky tourism development, dark sky tourism experience and its impact, and dark sky tourism destination development. For China's dark sky tourism stakeholders, the international research findings provide a certain theoretical basis for developing and managing this new type of tourism. At the same time, by learning international studies, domestic scholars are also encouraged to carry out specific empirical research in the Chinese dark sky tourism context, and then gradually establish the dialogue with Western dark sky tourism research.

Ecotourism plays an important role in promoting the protection and utilization of ecological resources in natural preserves in a scientific way and coordinating the sustainable development of man-land relationship in natural preserves. In the context of the new natural preserve system development in China, the utilization of natural preserves also needs to be creative and optimized. By reviewing the 546 papers of ecotourism in natural preserves published on Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) since 1996 and using CiteSpace as a visualization tool, this paper presented the research stages and their characteristics, research hotspots, and main contents. This paper also detailed the domestic research from five aspects: connotation and principles, planning and design, functional zoning, operation and management, and community participation. Moreover, this paper provided a summarize on the scale, method, and content of the research, and discussed how to promote the research of natural preserve utilization in China.

As an important carrier to promote tourism transformation and high-quality development, ecotourism plays a unique role in the key ecological civilization projects such as the construction of natural reserves system, the spatial protection and utilization of national land, and the Beautiful China. In this paper, an in-depth analysis of the ecotourism development research was conducted and the key areas of ecotourism development research in China was discussed in the context of moving towards sustainable development. Analysis shows that ecotourism plays a role in promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) from multi-dimensions. Mass ecotourism is strongly applicable in the discourse system of China including modern management system, technical norms, and ecological civilization. Contemporary China's ecological tourism development is completely different from the one in foreign countries during the past post-industrial time. Both facing climate change and human activities, green low carbon and the macro background of production mode transformation, and the space development and utilization, natural protected area system construction, high quality tourism development and regional industrial structure adjustment is closely related to national strategy, such as a series of external environment and the associated elements to seek the new development of ecological tourism development path. Natural ecology, geographical features, carrying capacity, and economic development outline the contemporary China's ecological tourism development. The future studies need to build to form an integrated system that treats the resources and environment capacity as the bottom line, follows the rules of the ecological recreation opportunity spectrum and the matching of time and space, utilize space governance and modern management as improvement strategies, and takes "highly restricted, low loss" policy and technical standards into consideration. By adopting the above system, the goals of ecological environment protection and sustainable economic and social development can be achieved.

Low-carbon tourism is a frontier and key field of tourism research in the context of climate change. This study analyzed the literature related to low-carbon tourism both in China and broad from Web of Science, CSSCI and CSCD databases by visualizing the data using CiteSpace, Alluvial Generator, and Excel. With Alluvial Generator, shock flow diagrams for co-cited networks were generated. Results show that: low-carbon tourism research abroad started earlier from the perspective of two-way interaction between external system and tourism industry. The goal of low-carbon tourism research abroad is to achive carbon neutrality. The research is based on ecological environment and engineering technology and have formed fixed regional cooperation networks. All key studies focus on the measurement of cabon emission using quantitative research. They have formed a relatively complete carbon reduction system. Recent low-carbon tourism research stage in China coincides with the period of rapid development abroad. Low-carbon tourism research in China is attached to the disciplines of tourism and economic management with no cooperative networks. In China, the research is carried out from the single perspective of sustainable development of the tourism industry, with not yet a complete system. Research in China is superior to foreign countries in the qualitative research such as concept and theory, in which key literatures lie in basic concepts, theories, carbon emission measurement, and analysis of influencing factors.

Historical and cultural blocks are not only important landmarks of urban culture, but also important resources for tourism development. They become important practical scenario for the integration of culture and tourism in the new era. Tunxi Old Street and Liyang Street are selected as representatives of traditional and reconstructed historical and cultural blocks, which are both located in Tunxi District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, and adjacent to each other. From the perspective of semiotics, this paper constructs a theoretical framework for the integration of culture and tourism in historical and cultural blocks. Empirical analysis shows that both the traditional and reconstructed historical and cultural blocks have formed cultural and tourism symbols in six aspects: thematic position, culture and tourism value, spatial layout, physical carriers, business types and tourism service. The former is dominated by traditional cultural symbols, while the latter is dominated by modern tourism symbols; obvious differences exist between two types of historical and cultural blocks in their uniqueness, prominence, integration and adaptability of cultural and tourism symbols. The uniqueness of local culture and the adaptability to tourism development are the specific features respectively of the former and the latter blocks. This paper, thus, puts forward tourism-oriented paths in traditional historical and cultural blocks and culture-oriented paths in the reconstructed historical and cultural blocks. These two types of blocks should strengthen the symbolization of cultural resources, diversification of resource functions, integration of symbol space and presentation of cultural symbols, which consequently promotes the value of cultural products and the quality of tourism services, so as to achieve the sustainable development of historical and cultural blocks.

The measurement method and model construction for tourism ecological compensation standard challenge the establishment of tourism ecological compensation mechanism. Taking Huangshan National Park as an example, based on the perspective of explicit and implicit supply costs of tourism ecological products and services in the national park, this paper comprehensively considers the supply costs and interest pursuits of tourism stakeholders such as managers, operators and guardian (community resident), divides the area into three-level tourism ecological compensation spatial scope, i.e., the core area, the adjacent area and the radiation area, with the principles of the ecosystem integrity, the fairness of survival right of local community development and the administrative feasibility, and establishes the measurement method and model for tourism ecological compensation standard of national parks. The measurement of the lower range value of tourism ecological compensation standard of Huangshan National Park is about 510 million yuan/year. This research provides theoretical guidance for constructing the tourism ecological compensation system of national parks, coordinating the-human land relationship between the protection and utilization of national parks in China, and realizing the high-quality development path of ecology co-construction, benefit sharing and win-win economic prosperity for national parks.

Rural reconstruction has become an important topic and development trend of the research in rural areas in China and abroad. Besides, rural tourism is regarded as an effective path to advance rural economy, and an important driving force for rural reconstruction. Using CiteSpace knowledge map visualization software, this paper systematically summarized relevant literature on rural restructuring influenced by tourism in China and abroad. This paper demonstrated this issue from three aspects: spatial restructuring, economic restructuring, and social restructuring. The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical support for the integrated development of new urbanization and rural strategy in China. The results show that: (1) Rural spatial reconstruction influenced by tourism can be manifested in three aspects: the change of rural land use, the reconstruction of village and town system, and the reconstruction of the spatial pattern of "ecology, production, and livelihood" in rural areas. (2) Rural economic reconstruction influenced by tourism was mainly shown from two aspects: the change of economic industrial structure and the transformation of residents' livelihood pattern. (3) The improvement of rural governance and the reconstruction of rural culture were the two main aspects in rural social reconstruction research. Moreover, this paper discussed the theoretical basis of rural reconstruction influenced by tourism based on spatial production theory and actor network theory. Finally, the prospect of future research in this field was put forward including tourism motivation, comparison of different types and cases of tourism impetus, and integration of new urbanization and rural revitalization strategies.

Tourism is regarded as an important tool for the implementation of the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs); however few studies have systematically sorted out relevant research achievements, resulting in unclear research progress and knowledge gaps in this field. This study takes 82 tourism SSCI journals included in the Web of Science^TM database from 2015 to 2021 as samples, and aims to reveal the research development context and academic hotspots by sorting out the response of the tourism academic community to the 2030 SDGs, and to have a glimpse of possible knowledge gaps and inspire future research directions. The results show that: (1) The research on SDGs connected with tourism in 2030 has been positively responded by the tourism academic community, and has experienced two stages: initial exploration and rapid development. (2) Research hotspots focus on tourism and no poverty (SDG 1), good health and well-being (SDG 3), gender equality (SDG 5), clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), affordable and clean energy (SDG 7), decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), reducing inequality (SDG 10), responsible consumption and production (SDG 12), climate action (SDG 13), and peace, justice and strong institutions (SDG 16). (3) Tourism is an active contributor to the implementation of the 2030 SDGs, but it faces many potential challenges and external threats. (4) In the future, it is necessary to focus on expanding the research framework for the connection of tourism to the SDGs, examining the contribution and challenges of tourism to the SDGs, clarifying the trade-offs and synergies that tourism affects SDGs, and paying attention to the contextual factors of tourism connection to the SDGs.

Industrial transformation is the key process for traditional fishing villages to break through the bottleneck of development, and it is also the necessary way to realize the development of rural revitalization. However, due to the long-term influence of insufficient rural statistical data, traditional studies usually adopt indicators such as residents’ income composition to indirectly measure the development process of rural industrial transformation, which has certain limitations. Based on the theory of rural industrial transformation, this paper uses enterprise attribute data to construct an evaluation index system of industrial development in traditional fishing villages, and takes 22 fishing villages in coastal areas of Fujian Province as research objects to explore the process, types and influencing factors of industrial transformation of traditional fishing villages. It is found that: from 1989 to 2020, the industrial transformation of traditional fishing villages in Fujian Province can be divided into three stages, which are the initial stage, the intermediate stage and the later stage. In each stage, not only the number and scale of enterprises continue to grow, the fishing villages without dominant industry type gradually disappear, but the dominant industries of fishing villages in each stage show the characteristics of growing step by step. According to the characteristics of industrial transformation, about 60% of fishing villages belong to the ready-transformation type, the percentage of transformed fishing villages is only 31.8%, and the untransformed fishing villages face the dilemma of difficult transformation. The industrial transformation of traditional fishing villages is mainly influenced by resources (fishery resources) and market (population size), and the strengthening of policy factors and the optimization of environmental factors are also conducive to promoting the further transformation of fishing village industry. The findings of this study can contribute to the industrial transformation development of traditional fishing villages in coastal areas.

Linear cultural heritage is a special type of heritage. Along with the improved understanding of heritage integrity and growing awareness of heritage reuse and utilization, linear cultural heritage tourism is becoming increasingly important. Therefore, promoting the awareness of linear cultural heritage and grasping the characteristics of linear cultural heritage become key issues in encouraging linear cultural heritage utilization and sustainable linear cultural heritage tourism development. World heritage sites are unique tourism resources that can meet multiple tourism demands. Using the linear cultural heritage data from the World Heritage List, this study analyzed the linear cultural heritage characteristics including category and inclusion criteria, resource combination patterns, and core zones and buffer zones. This study also analyzed the influences of linear cultural heritage characteristics on tourism utilization from the aspects of spatial evolution and tourism reuse. The results show that the development of tourism spatial structure followed the rule of “growth pole.” Moreover, there were different paths for reutilization and activation in terms of cultural stratification of heritage.