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The concept of a heritage corridor represents a novel approach to the conservation and development of heritage assets. This approach has garnered increasing attention on the international stage in recent years; however, it remains in its infancy within the Chinese context. The majority of traditional studies on heritage corridor routing have been initiated from an environmental perspective, with a focus on analysing material spatial conditions, often disregarding the subjective perceptions of users. The city of Xi'an, located in the hinterland of Weihe Plain in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is a key area through which the ancient Silk Road passed, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every year. This paper takes the cultural heritage tourist sites in Xi'an as the research object, borrows the MCR model for constructing heritage corridors and ArcGIS technology, analyses the digital footprints of tourists, incorporates the tourists' preference for spatial perception into the route construction process, and combines the results of suitability evaluation and co-occurrence analysis with the corridors' hierarchical classifications, and finally generates a '3+5 ' tourism corridors in Xi'an. The study is structured in three sections. Firstly, factors related to the comprehensive environment of towns and cities are selected, and a comprehensive resistance surface of urban construction is constructed and suitability zones are generated. Secondly, the digital footprints of tourists in Xi'an city are analysed through co-occurrence analysis, popular cultural heritage tourist spots are selected, and preliminary routes are generated accordingly. Thirdly, tourism corridors are generated based on the suitability zones and the analysis of the characteristics of the co-occurrence features in a graded classification. The objective of this study is to establish a cultural heritage display network that is founded upon the built environment of towns and the subjective choices of tourists. In addition, the study will explore new ways of protecting and utilising cultural heritage in the context of culture and tourism.
References
[1] Wu, X.; Chen, K.; Chen, J.; Peng, C. (2020) 'Study on the Construction of Cultural Heritage Corridor in Jiangmen City under the Perspective of Territorial Spatial Planning', Journal of Human Settlements in West China, vol. 35, no. 01, pp. 7-16.
[2] Zhou, X.; Yang, Y.; Su, J. (2023) 'A Heritage Corridor Routing Approach Based on Historic Cityscape and Digital Footprint Perspectives - A Case Study of Nanjing Historic District, China', Landscape Architecture Frontiers, vol. 11, no. 03, pp. 11-37.
[3] Wang, Z.; Sun, P. (2001) 'Heritage corridors - a newer approach to heritage conservation', Chinese Landscape Architecture, vol. 05, no. 05, pp. 86-89.
| Keywords | tourism footprint; tourism corridor; co-word analysis; Xi'an；heritage tourism |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
