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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11821/dlyj020250290

Tourism Geography

Spatial association and formation mechanism of community conflicts in rural tourism destination: A case study of Liujiang Ancient Town in Sichuan Province

  • LIU Yang , 1 ,
  • ZHAO Zhenbin , 2 ,
  • ZHANG Jian 1 ,
  • ZHONG Yu 1 ,
  • TAN Qinglan 1
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  • 1. School of Management, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
  • 2. School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China

Received date: 2025-03-11

  Accepted date: 2025-07-25

  Online published: 2026-05-26

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The rapid development of rural tourism destinations has increasingly highlighted community conflicts. Understanding the spatial association characteristics of these conflicts can facilitate targeted policy interventions to enhance tourism development and community governance efficiency, thereby supporting rural revitalization strategy. Taking Liujiang Ancient Town in Sichuan as a case study, this research investigates local residents through participatory mapping and semi-structured interviews. A mixed-methods approach integrating qualitative, spatial, and quantitative analyses was employed to identify conflict types, analyze their interrelationships and correlation intensity, and reveal the formation mechanisms of spatial associations. Key findings include: (1) Rural tourism community conflicts can be categorized into management, economic, environmental, and cultural conflicts, with six identified interrelationships: management-economic, economic-cultural, management-environmental, management-cultural, economic-environmental, and environmental-cultural dimensions. The first three constitute primary relationships. (2) Conflict association generally exhibit a polycentric spatial distribution pattern, demonstrating three distinct spatial models: high-value polarization with low-value differentiation clustering, dual-core concentration, and single-core aggregation, primarily associated with increasingly diversified spatial properties and locations undergoing significant transformations. (3) Spatial correlation intensity varies across conflict types, with management-economic conflicts showing the strongest association and environmental-cultural conflicts the weakest. (4) The spatial association of community conflicts in rural tourism destinations emerge through the institutional arrangements as the leading factor, economic interest conflicts as the core content, symbolic value alienation as the underlying cause, and ineffective environmental governance as an important extension, which is attached to the concentrated presentation of spatial nodes. This study extends tourism conflict research through beneficial application of mixed methods to investigate conflict associations, providing deeper insights into the inherent relationships of community conflicts and offering practical references for community governance.

Key words： rural tourism; community conflicts; qualitative-spatial analysis; spatial association; formation mechanism

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LIU Yang , ZHAO Zhenbin , ZHANG Jian , ZHONG Yu , TAN Qinglan . Spatial association and formation mechanism of community conflicts in rural tourism destination: A case study of Liujiang Ancient Town in Sichuan Province[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2026 , 45(5) : 1445 -1462 . DOI: 10.11821/dlyj020250290

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