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WebGIS has become critical infrastructure for tourism information retrieval and spatial decision-making. However, the growing volume and heterogeneity of multi-source tourism data expose fundamental limitations in conventional relational database architectures, particularly in handling complex spatial semantic queries. To address this, the present study proposes a WebGIS design methodology that integrates knowledge graphs with relational databases through a dual-database collaborative architecture. Using tourist attraction data from China\u2019s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as a case study, a prototype Xinjiang Smart Tourism WebGIS system was constructed, which consists of an asynchronous synchronization mechanism based on Change Data Capture (CDC) to ensure data consistency across heterogeneous databases. Subsequently, tourism semantic queries of varying depths were constructed and comprehensively tested across different data scales. 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