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Journal of Desert Research ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 141-153.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2025.00085

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Synergistic evolution and obstacles of cultural-tourism integration and ecological resilience in the Yellow River Basin

Xuegang Feng1(), Zhiyuan Li1, Wei Zhong2()   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062,China
    2.School of Hotel Management,Shanghai Business School,Shanghai 201400,China
  • Received:2025-04-22 Revised:2025-05-30 Online:2025-11-20 Published:2025-11-26
  • Contact: Wei Zhong

Abstract:

Promoting deep coordination between culture-tourism integration and ecological resilience in the Yellow River Basin is of great practical value to stimulate the kinetic energy of cultural and tourism industry, promote the construction of ecological civilization, and accelerate the basin to a new green path of sustainable development. This study takes nine provinces in the Yellow River Basin from 2011 to 2022 as the research object, and integrates the two composite systems of culture-tourism integration and ecological resilience into the same framework. On the basis of measuring the comprehensive level of the two systems, the Haken model is used to reveal the synergistic effect of the two systems and describe their spatio-temporal evolution. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) During the study period, the level of culture-tourism integration and ecological resilience in the Yellow River Basin was significantly improved, but the level of culture-tourism integration showed a "polarization" pattern, with obvious advantages of culture-tourism integration in the downstream region and prominent ecological resilience in the upstream region. (2) The integration of culture and tourism is the order parameter that dominates the collaborative evolution of the Yellow River Basin system. The overall collaborative level of the basin has an evolutionary trend of rapid improvement - stable operation, and the regional level presents a collaborative pattern of downstream > middle reaches > upstream. (3) The number of high-quality and medium synergistic provinces in the Yellow River Basin increased steadily, and the synergistic level showed a dynamic evolutionary pattern of "gradual decline from east to west" to "central catch-up" and then to "contiguous peak". (4) The public service supply of cultural tourism industry and ecosystem is the main obstacle in the early stage, and the negative impact of pollutant emission and ecological environment governance is gradually emerging. The upstream region needs to improve the basic input and performance output of cultural tourism, while the middle and downstream regions need to focus on the lack of ecological resilience supporting factors and ecological environment issues.

Key words: culture-tourism integration, ecological resilience, synergistic evolution, obstacle factors, Harken model, Yellow River Basin

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