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and Resource Tourism resources of Xinjiang

Figure 4. The tourism destinations and river systems in Xinjiang, China

Figure 5. The tourism destinations and heatwave index values in Xinjiang, China

1990 and 2023, we observed that the years 1998, 2010, and with domestic tourism accounting for over 90% of total
2015 were turning points in the growth of tourism revenue tourism revenue. Another significant increase occurred in
in Xinjiang. Before 1998, the tourism revenue in Xinjiang 2010, when international tourism revenue rose to 2.7 times
was relatively low, but it surged in 1998 and began to grow than in 2009, while domestic tourism revenue increased
steadily at a rapid pace. The revenue ratio from domestic by 1.7 times compared to 2009 (Figure 6). After 2010,
tourism and international tourism was approximately the growth accelerated, especially after 2015, until the
3:2 before 1998. However, since 1998, domestic tourism outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Previous
revenue has far exceeded that of international tourism, studies on Xinjiang’s tourism, due to limited time series
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