Content of review 1, reviewed on November 22, 2022

The subject of the professionally written article, "A Longitudinal Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Ancient Tourism Villages Development in Zhejiang, China," is one that is highly pertinent nowadays. This study has significant theoretical and applied implications. However, the reviewer makes a few modest adjustments to help clarify a few of the paper's terms. The reviewer advises - the authors not to use personal address in the text (we are..., we suggest...). Throw out the first person plural address in the paper. For example, instead of "we also aim to identify... or "we extend the spatial cluster...", use the passive "it is aimed to identify", or "authors aimed to identify... " "authors extend the spatial cluster" "it is extend the spatial cluster". Example: instead of the (way of writing) sentence: "First, we extend the spatial cluster issue of tourism attractions into ancient villages' contexts and expand the analysis to include spatial and temporal dimensions, at both the meso (provincial) level and micro (prefectural-level city) levels, thus capturing a holistic picture", the reviewer (in accordance with academic writing) recommends the following: "First, the research expands the issue of spatial clustering of tourist attractions to the contexts of ancient villages, as well as the analysis so that the paper includes spatial and temporal dimensions, both at the meso (provincial) and micro (prefectural-level city) levels, thereby getting a holistic picture". Pay attention to this type of writing throughout the text. Also, the reviewer's recommendation is to give a definition of rural tourism and the connection between rural and sustainable tourism in the introductory part of the paper with a few sentences. In other words, to instruct the readers that rural tourism belongs to a sustainable form of tourism economy, because the goal of the rural tourism is also to increase the economic profit and development of rural areas, but also to preserve a healthy natural environment at the same time.

Source

    © 2022 the Reviewer (CC BY 4.0).

References

    Yafang, B., Hanjing, J., Emily, M., Zhi, S., Lihua, X. 2023. A Longitudinal Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Ancient Village Tourism Development in Zhejiang, China. Sustainability.