Research on the evolution and driving factors of the coupling relationship among tourism industry, urbanization and human settlements of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River

• Youbao Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation School of Tourism, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Ailiang Xie ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xieailiang@lyu.edu.cn (AX); zstar0926@163.com (XZ)

  Affiliation School of History and Culture, Linyi University, Linyi, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9508-1063

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• Xin Zhou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xieailiang@lyu.edu.cn (AX); zstar0926@163.com (XZ)

  Affiliation School of Public Administration, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Kang Cheng

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Business, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0865-9406

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