ZHANG Gaojun;Shenzhen Tourism College, Jinan University;To establish a tourism-friendly bay area, it is essential to assess the cross-sea accessibility of the Pearl River Estuary, thereby effectively addressing the connectivity issues between the eastern and western shores of the bay area. Utilizing the cost-weighted grid method, this study examines the impact of newly built cross-sea channels on the accessibility of tourist attractions in the Greater Bay Area(GBA) from four aspects: changes in isochrone area, daily accessibility, weighted average travel time, and tourism economic linkage intensity. Taking the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel(hereinafter referred to as “B&C”) as examples, the study analyzes their influence. The conclusions are as follows: 1) Within a certain spatial scope, there is a marginal diminishing effect on the improvement of tourist attraction accessibility, and the enhancement effect declines with distance from the starting and ending points of the cross-sea tunnels. The main contradiction in improving GBA accessibility has shifted from absolute value enhancement to controlling the expansion of regional disparities and structural imbalances. 2) The impact of B&C on tourism accessibility is concentrated mainly on the eastern and western shores of the Pearl River Estuary, with insignificant effects on the central region. Specifically, the HKZMB primarily enhances the area of the 2-hour traffic circle in the GBA, while the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel mainly expands the 1-hour traffic circle. 3) In terms of attraction accessibility, B&C significantly increase the number of attractions reachable within 1 hour on both shores of the Pearl River, enabling the areas around the Pearl River Estuary in the GBA to form a relatively close tourism circle. The overall attraction accessibility is compressed from 1.20 hours to 1.12 hours, with Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, and Huizhou representing weaknesses. 4) Measuring the changes in the tourism economic landscape of the GBA based on tourism economic linkage intensity reveals that B&C have not altered the three core clusters of Guangzhou-Foshan, Shenzhen-Hong Kong, and Zhuhai-Macao, but rather further consolidated their agglomeration trends.
2025 02 v.53;No.218 [Abstract][OnlineView][Download 1258K]