Integrating Agricultural and Ecotourism Development: A Crop Cultivation Suitability Framework Considering Tourists’ Landscape Preferences in Qinghai Province, China

Ecotourism and agricultural development have been proven to synergistic effects, although few studies employed a spatial planning approach incorporate tourism growth into crop cultivation planning. This study constructed theoretical framework of environmental suitability—farmland accessibility—tourist’s landscape preferences for link regional agriculture ecotourism development. The rapeseed in Qinghai Province was chosen as case study. main research methods include an suitability analysis based on remote sensing Maxent modeling, farmland accessibility GIS platform, preference questionnaire survey tourists. According the survey’s findings, almost 80% tourists thought flowers enhanced beauty natural landscapes. demonstrated enormous potential fields fostering ecotourism. Based factors, optimum region covered 5.38% area, or roughly 6327 km2. comprehensive zone, which encompassed both suitability, equal 12.63% area’s farming around 929 study’s can integrate development, with substantial implications achieving coordinated economic, social,