Spatial Distribution Pattern of the Catering Industry in A Tourist City: Taking Lhasa City as A Case

Yunyun LI; Haiyang LIU; Ling-en WANG

doi:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2020.02.007

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Journal of Resources and Ecology
Vol. 11, Issue 2, 191 (2020)

Spatial Distribution Pattern of the Catering Industry in A Tourist City: Taking Lhasa City as A Case

Yunyun LI^1、2、3, Haiyang LIU⁴, and Ling-en WANG¹

Author Affiliations

¹Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Center for Animal Health and Productivity, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19348, USA

⁴College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China

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DOI: 10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2020.02.007 Cite this Article

Yunyun LI, Haiyang LIU, Ling-en WANG. Spatial Distribution Pattern of the Catering Industry in A Tourist City: Taking Lhasa City as A Case[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2020, 11(2): 191 Copy Citation Text

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Fig. 1. Location of study area

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Distribution of catering providers in the study area Note: (a) the spatial distribution of catering providers in Lhasa’s main city area; (b) the proportions of different kinds of catering providers; and (c) the proportions of the different cuisines of catering providers.

Fig. 2. Distribution of catering providers in the study area Note: (a) the spatial distribution of catering providers in Lhasa’s main city area; (b) the proportions of different kinds of catering providers; and (c) the proportions of the different cuisines of catering providers.

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Fig. 3. Standard deviational ellipse of catering providers for (a) different kinds of catering providers and (b) different cuisine types provided by the various kinds of catering providers

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Fig. 5. Kernel density estimation of catering providers’ different cuisines types: (a) local; (b) Sichuan; (c) Halal and (d) all others.

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Fig. 6. Buffer analysis for different kinds of roads: (a) main roads; (b) secondary roads and (c) branch roads.

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Fig. 7. (a) Kernel density estimation of scenic spots and (b) the spatial distribution of different kinds of scenic spots

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Fig. 8. Buffer analysis of (a) all scenic spots within the 500 m buffer range, (b) all scenic spots within the 1000 m buffer range, (c) 2A level and above scenic spots in the 1000 m buffer range and (d) 2A level and above scenic spots in the 2000 m buffer range.

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Fig. 9. Spatial distribution of (a) population in the main city area of Lhasa, and the distribution of population overlaid with (b) all catering providers, (c) local restaurants, (d) Sichuan restaurants and (e) Halal restaurants.

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Fig. 10. Population heat map in the Main City Area of Lhasa.

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	Catering providers	Observed mean distance (m)	Expected mean distance (m)	Nearest neighbour ratio	z-score
	All catering providers	26.8839	113.3963	0.237079	-95.216245
Different kinds of catering providers	Chinese restaurant	18.8288	86.9181	0.216627	-127.552406
	Chinese fast food restaurant	82.0259	300.0183	0.273403	-34.274909
	Tea house	67.0662	209.3236	0.320395	-45.948244
	Western restaurant	323.4324	903.7787	0.357867	-10.055262
	Pastry shop	139.0467	358.8435	0.387486	-24.156927
	Snack bar	186.8654	451.0486	0.414291	-18.377602
	Beverage shop	355.9832	802.3984	0.443649	-9.812716
	Cafe	293.8510	646.3442	0.454635	-11.941351
	Western fast food restaurant	385.0135	816.9446	0.471285	-9.159245
	Hotel	467.4488	877.9511	0.532431	-7.537118
Different cuisines of catering provides	Local restaurant	26.0471	108.8846	0.239218	-98.883560
	Other catering providers	50.1552	167.1834	0.300001	-59.256315
	Halal restaurant	213.3069	520.5037	0.409809	-16.047207
	Sichuan restaurant	153.8062	341.9610	0.449777	-22.771546

Table 1.

Average nearest neighbor analysis results for different kinds of catering providers

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Buffer area	Number of catering providers	Proportion (%)
150 m range buffer of main road	1768	24.41
100 m range buffer of secondary road	5737	79.20
50 m range buffer of branch road	5442	75.12

Table 2.

Catering provider quantities in buffer areas of different levels of roads and their proportions within the total number of catering providers.

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Buffer range	Number of catering providers	Proportion (%)
500 m	3960	54.67
1000 m	6196	85.59
Above 2A-level 1000 m	1509	20.83
Above 2A-level 2000 m	3558	49.12

Table 3.

Catering provider distribution within varying buffer ranges of the scenic spots.

Yunyun LI, Haiyang LIU, Ling-en WANG. Spatial Distribution Pattern of the Catering Industry in A Tourist City: Taking Lhasa City as A Case[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2020, 11(2): 191

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