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Taking the development of rural tourism in 11 cities in Jiangxi Province as the research object, the ranking results of 11 cities were obtained by using grey relational analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The overall development level of rural tourism in Jiangxi Province is positive, but the spatial distribution is uneven, showing the characteristics of \u201clow-level aggregation and high-level dispersion\u201d. The barrier model diagnoses that the degree of financial input is the biggest constraint to the development level of rural tourism in Jiangxi Province.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study puts forward an evaluation model based on entropy weight and grey relational analysis, which is an important supplement to the grey relational analysis method system and has a positive role in promoting the quantitative evaluation of regional rural tourism level.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/gs-03-2023-0019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,8]],"date-time":"2023-07-08T05:05:18Z","timestamp":1688792718000},"page":"677-700","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Evaluation of rural tourism development level based on entropy-weighted grey correlation analysis: the case of Jiangxi Province"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Xiaoyan","family":"Yan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-5174-9760","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Min","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Changbiao","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,11]]},"reference":[{"issue":"11","key":"key2023102112380974300_ref001","first-page":"74","article-title":"A study on the influencing factors of the IIT in tourism service between China and the United States: based on Grey Relation Analysis","volume":"471","year":"2018","journal-title":"On Economic Problems"},{"key":"key2023102112380974300_ref002","first-page":"288","article-title":"Control problems of grey systems","volume":"5","year":"1982","journal-title":"Systems and Control Letters"},{"key":"key2023102112380974300_ref003","volume-title":"Some Problems of Grey System Theory and Application Progress","year":"1996"},{"issue":"04","key":"key2023102112380974300_ref004","first-page":"628","article-title":"A study on the spatio-temporal coupling of rural revitalization and rural tourism in Shandong Province","volume":"40","year":"2020","journal-title":"Scientia Geographica Sinica"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2023102112380974300_ref005","first-page":"49","article-title":"Exploring the dynamic linkages between tourism growth and environmental pollution: new evidence from the Mediterranean countries","volume":"24","year":"2019","journal-title":"Current Issues in Tourism"},{"issue":"05","key":"key2023102112380974300_ref006","first-page":"213","article-title":"Has the development of leisure agriculture and rural tourism promoted the increase of farmers' income: an evidence from quasi-natural experiment","volume":"42","year":"2022","journal-title":"Economy Geography"},{"key":"key2023102112380974300_ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"588","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eneco.2015.03.008","article-title":"How do correlations of crude oil prices co-move? 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