Transportation and Tourism Geography
YANG Zhao, LIU Changqi, WANG Panpan, ZHU Qijing, LI Xiaosa, JIANG Pengfei
As a new tourism carrier, tourism corridor combines richer elements and has more open and broader living space, which has significant advantages in promoting common prosperity along the route, facilitating the evolvement of regional livelihood and enhancing the sustainability of farmers' livelihoods. Based on common prosperity, this paper takes the Sichuan-Xizang route in southern Anhui as a case, using network data, interview data and tourist survey data. It aims to investigate tourism corridor's elements, its development process as well as the evolvement of farmers' tourism livelihood, and finally explore its influencing factors. The key findings are as follows: (1) With multiple and hierarchical spatial structures, the corridor tourism area consists of seven elements, namely commuting roads, corridor of special experience, scenic resources, scenic spots, nodes (entrance nodes, viewing nodes, service nodes), derivative micro-attractors and local ecological environment. (2) The evolution of corridor tourism area generally goes through four stages: commuting stage, scenic area driving stage, main corridor radiation stage, and vine network stage. In the stage of vine network, local ecological environment becomes the core attraction of the corridor. (3) From the perspective of overall prosperity and outcome sharing, the common prosperity effect of corridor tourism area is remarkable, however, there are obvious gradual and sequential differences. (4) The farmers' tourism livelihood evolves with the development of corridor tourism area, which is mainly manifested as structural changes in livelihood capital, composite trend in livelihood strategies, passive shift in term of livelihood vulnerability and adaptive adjustments in livelihood policies. Livelihood outcomes, characterized by livelihood stability, accessibility and sustainability, have improved considerably. (5) The evolvement of farmers' tourism livelihood is affected by social factors such as location, government policies and co-construction mechanisms, as well as natural factors such as elevation and slope. Among all these factors, government policies are at the core and exerts influence on other factors.