School of Tourism and Culture, Nanning Normal University, Nanning, China.
Guangxi Tourism Research Institution, Guilin, China.
PLoS One. 2023 Aug 24;18(8):e0290392. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290392. eCollection 2023.
Rural public services and rural tourism are interdependent, and their coordinated development is crucial for promoting rural revitalization and overall growth in China. So far, the existing studies mainly focus on the mutual influence, mutual promotion, and coordination paths of rural public services and rural tourism but fail to conduct an empirical analysis on the coupling coordination of rural public services and rural tourism or summarize the spatial and temporal differences of the coupling coordination. Therefore, we adopt an evaluation index system for rural public services and rural tourism. To measure the development level and the coupling coordination degree of rural public services and rural tourism in southwestern China from 2012 to 2019, we used a comprehensive evaluation model and a coupling coordination degree model. Additionally, geographic detectors were utilised to detect the causative factors of their coupling coordination development. Based on the analysis of research results, we made the following observations. In southwestern China, the comprehensive development of rural public services and rural tourism indicated an upward trend. An additional interactive coupling relationship between the two systems is observed, and its coupling coordination degree increases, with the increment varying from slow to rapid. The type of coupling coordination changes from rural tourism lagging type to rural public service lagging type, and there are spatial differences in the degree of coupling coordination between the two. The coupling coordination development of the two systems is affected by multiple causative forces, such as economic, industrial, resource attraction, and service guarantee forces, and some differences distinguish the driving strengths of both single and interaction factors. The main contribution of this article is to reveal the coupling and coordination relationship between rural public services and rural tourism, to explore the driving factors affecting the degree of coupling and coordination between them, and to make relevant policy recommendations.
农村公共服务与乡村旅游相互依存，协调发展对促进乡村振兴和中国整体增长至关重要。到目前为止，现有研究主要集中在农村公共服务与乡村旅游的相互影响、相互促进和协调路径上，而没有对农村公共服务与乡村旅游的耦合协调进行实证分析，也没有总结其耦合协调的时空差异。因此，我们采用了农村公共服务和乡村旅游的评价指标体系。为了衡量 2012 年至 2019 年中国西南地区农村公共服务和乡村旅游的发展水平和耦合协调度，我们采用了综合评价模型和耦合协调度模型。此外，还利用地理探测器来探测其耦合协调发展的成因因素。基于研究结果的分析，我们得出以下观察结果。在中国西南地区，农村公共服务和乡村旅游的综合发展呈上升趋势。观察到两个系统之间存在额外的互动耦合关系，其耦合协调度增加，增量从缓慢到快速变化。耦合协调类型从乡村旅游滞后型转变为农村公共服务滞后型，两者之间的耦合协调程度存在空间差异。两个系统的耦合协调发展受到多种原因力的影响，如经济、产业、资源吸引力和服务保障力，并且一些差异区分了单一和交互因素的驱动强度。本文的主要贡献在于揭示农村公共服务与乡村旅游的耦合协调关系，探讨影响两者耦合协调程度的驱动因素，并提出相关政策建议。
