Abstract:
【Objective/Meaning】The rural tourism is one of the important strategies to promote the rural revitalization. The exploration and research on the temporal and spatial behavior characteristics of beach photography tourists in Xiapu County aimed to provide the data support for the project development of beach photography tourism, the design of tourist routes and the planning of tourism development in Xiapu County. 【Methods/Procedures】By taking the pictures on Flickr and Fengniao in 2006-2019 as the data sources, the temporal and spatial behavior characteristics of beach photography tourists in Xiapu County were studied by using the time statistical analysis, social network analysis and kernel density analysis. 【Results/Conclusions】The results showed that: Beiqi was in the central position of photography tourism system in Xiapu; “Beiqi-Xiaohao” constituted the main channel for the tourists’ movement in Xiapu; There was a clear division between the peak and low seasons of tourism, the morning and dusk were the peak periods of tourist activities, while the sense of tourism experience in other periods was weak; The spatial structure of tourism resources in Xiapu has not formed a real tourism center, and the road traffic has limited the development of low-hot photography areas.