Optimizing Strategies for Assessing Tourism Utilization Potential and Prioritizing Intervention in ICH: A Case Study of China's Yellow River Basin
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Globalization and technological advancement have intensified the dichotomy between commercialization and authenticity in the development of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) tourism, leading to its heavy reliance on tangible spatial carriers. To effectively guide the preservation and development of ICH, this study takes China’s Yellow River Basin as a case study, constructing a multi-source assessment system for the tourism utilization potential of ICH to precisely identify intervention values for tourism development and advantageous zones. The findings indicate that: (1) ICH exhibits a highly concentrated spatial pattern characterized by “five cores and two wings”; (2) the distribution of tourism utilization potential demonstrates distinct “core–periphery” characteristics; (3) tangible spatial carriers serve as the primary driver of spatial differentiation in tourism potential; and (4) differentiated development models are accordingly proposed for six distinct zones.
