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The rapid development of mobile Internet has made it more common for tourists to actively share their travel experience and itineraries on social media platforms, influencing the offline travel destination choices of other tourists with similar travel intention. This has had a huge impact on the traditional tourism routes, which were once centred around travel agency-recommended attractions. The spatial range of tourists is no longer confined to limited tourist attractions of the past, but gradually permeates into the daily lives of local residents, leading to a reconstruction of the urban tourism space. However, the activity trajectories of local residents are regular, and their living spaces are also relatively stable. This emerging shift in tourism trend has inevitably led to spatial conflicts between tourists and local residents, disrupting the original balance of space usage. In recent years, numerous "Travel Pitfall Avoidance" posts have emerged on social media platforms such as Weibo and Xiaohongshu. These posts reflect the dissatisfaction of tourists with certain urban spaces, many of which are closely related to the living spaces of local residents, becoming an important manifestation of the spatial conflicts between tourists and local residents.
This paper focuses on the spatial conflicts between tourists and local residents. It selects "Nanjing Travel Pitfall Avoidance" posts from popular social media platforms such as Weibo and Xiaohongshu as the research data. Text mining techniques are used to extract spatial location information from the posts and their comments. By utilizing ArcGIS for spatial localization and spatial analysis model construction, the paper analyses the distribution of spatial conflicts between tourists and local residents in Nanjing, as well as the underlying causes. The paper also categorizes the types of spatial conflicts and provides targeted strategies for alleviating these conflicts. Strengthening the identification of spatial conflicts will provide scientific evidence for urban planning, tourism management, and community development in Nanjing, facilitating better coexistence and sharing between tourists and local residents.
Based on preliminary judgment, the following conclusions can be hypothesized. The spatial conflicts between tourists and Nanjing residents primarily concentrate in three types of areas: high-profile spaces that are deeply embedded into the daily life of local residents’ communities, spaces with a high frequency of use by local residents but with low levels of tourism service facilities, spaces served for transportation and mobility. Additionally, with the rising demand of tourists for ecological environments and landscape quality, the distribution of spatial conflicts also shows seasonal variations. The emergence of spatial conflicts between tourists and local residents is essentially a result of the mismatch between spatial supply and spatial demand caused by the development of the mobile internet.
| Keywords | space conflict, mobile Internet, social media, urban tourism |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
