Evaluation of Tourism Climate Suitability and Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Comfort in Jiangxi Province

Abstract

Abstract Utilizing nearly 60 years of meteorological records from ground meteorological station, various reanalysis meteorological datasets, and the widely used Tourist Climatic Suitability Index (TCSI) model, this study combines spatial analysis and statistical methods to analyze the spatiotemporal characteristics of tourist climate comfort in Jiangxi Province. The results indicate that the tourist climate comfort in Jiangxi Province exhibits a bimodal pattern throughout the year, with the optimal tourism time being May and September-October. High-altitude mountainous regions show variations in tourist climate comfort compared to the plains, presenting a unimodal pattern, with the best tourism time falling between June and September. Moreover, there is a clear increasing trend in tourist climate comfort in Jiangxi Province from 1959 to 2018.