Measurement and Model Construction of Tourism Industry and Cultural Industry's Interactive Convergence

Abstract

It is easy for tourism industry and cultural industry to converge with each other due to their common cultural and economic attributes. This paper builds the convergence model of tourism industry and cultural industry based on the review of the literature. And it estimates and compares the convergence degree during tourism industries converge with cultural industries based on 2007 input-output table. The results show that the convergence degree of tourism industry's initiative convergence with cultural core industries is higher than it with cultural-related industries. The convergence degree of lodging industry and restaurant industry's initiative convergence with cultural industry is higher than travel industry's initiative convergence with cultural industry. In the interactive convergence of tourism industries and cultural industries, tourism industry in most sectors leads the cultural industry in the industry integration. Accordingly this paper puts forward relevant policy recommendations.