Analysis on spatial structure characteristics and influencing factors of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region MICE cities

Industrial upgrading and transfer is one of the three key areas in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) are important means of promoting industrial upgrading. Urban MICE industry, as an important carrier of event activi...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-07, Vol.18 (7), p.e0287695-e0287695
Main Authors: Wu, Shifeng, Hong, Yu, Jia, Yinuo, Wang, Jiangyun, Xu, Xin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerospace environments
Attraction
Cities
Computer and Information Sciences
Development strategies
Earth Sciences
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Economic development
Evaluation
Exhibitions
Five year plans
Incentives
Influence
Infrastructure (Economics)
Internet
Olympic games
Railroads
Regional development
Regions
Regression models
Research methodology
Social network analysis
Social networks
Social Sciences
Spatial analysis
Subgroups
Tourism
Tourism development
Urban development
Urban environments
Urban planning
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Summary:Industrial upgrading and transfer is one of the three key areas in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) are important means of promoting industrial upgrading. Urban MICE industry, as an important carrier of event activities, become an important gripper for coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. City exhibition space structure plays an dominant role in regional economic development, and it will greatly promote smooth implementation of the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. In this paper, 13 prefecture-level cities in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei were selected as research objects, and the data from 2012 to 2018 were selected to establish a gravity model of the attractiveness of MICE cities. With the help of UCINET software, the network density, centrality, cohesive subgroup and core-edge of nodes researches were obtained to analyze the spatial structure characteristics of the attractiveness of MICE cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. The influencing factors of the spatial characteristics of MICE city attractiveness are analyzed by using geographically weighted regression model. The results show that: (1) Beijing, as the overall core area, act as a prominent role. Beijing strengthens the attraction to the superior resources of the surrounding areas, but the network of MICE cities tends to be unbalanced. (2) Overall space forms a subgroup from a single independent subgroup to a subgroup that is spatially separated from each other and acts as an intermediary channel to connect each other, and the core region decreases from 3 to 2. Langfang was removed from the list, leaving Beijing and Tianjin as the core. (3) The influence of supporting facilities, urban environment and population factors on the MICE city attractiveness of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region is increasing gradually. The influence of tourism development level on the MICE city attractiveness of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region is decreasing gradually. The influence of economic development level and Internet development level on the MICE city attractiveness of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region remains unchanged.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0287695