ISSN 1000-0526
CN 11-2282/P
CN 11-2282/P
Spatial Patterns and Temporal-Variation Characteristics of Tourism Climate During the Spring Festival Holiday in China
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Abstract:
China’s Spring Festival is usually between 20 January and 26 February every year. The Spring Festival holiday is the golden week of tourism, bringing high tourism flow. The Spring Festival tourism shows climate-driven characteristics. In this paper, human comfort index and trend analysis method are used to analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics of favorable and unfavorable tourism climate conditions during the Spring Festival holiday in China. The results show that during the Spring Festival holiday from 1991 to 2020, there is a significant north-south difference for temperature and precipitation in China. The average temperature in most areas south of the Yangtze River (Jiangnan) is above 5℃, while that in most parts of Heilongjiang and northeastern Inner Mongolia is below -15℃. The precipitation is mainly concentrated in Jiangnan and the central eastern part of South China. The number of human comfort days is more than 10 days in most parts of South China, Yunnan, and southern Sichuan, beneficial for winter resort. The number of snow cover days is more than 15 days in the majority of Northeast China, central and northeastern Inner Mongolia, and northern Xinjiang, which is conducive to ice-snow tourism. Precipitation and fog mainly affect tourism in southern China, while strong winds and cold weather mainly affect that in northern China. Since 1961, during the Spring Festival holiday, the reduction of strong winds and cold days in northern China is conducive to holiday tourism, especially good for ice-snow tourism. In the eastern part of South China, most parts of Yunnan and southern Sichuan, the number of human comfort days has clearly increased while the number of rainy days has decreased, so the climate conditions for winter resort have been improved. Overall, the climate conditions for winter resort and ice-snow tourism during the Spring Festival holiday have shown good trends obviously, which is important for transforming climate resources into tourism economy and promoting the development of featured tourism in various regions.
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