Tourism Economic Development Research Articles

The Spatial–Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of the Coastal Tourism Economy in China

Tourism has emerged as a pivotal element of China’s economic development, particularly within its coastal cities. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of China’s coastal city tourism economic development, focusing on 53 coastal cities. Through a meticulous combination of literature analysis and data crawling, a robust database is constructed, encompassing tourism resources and revenues. This study delineates the spatial–temporal evolution pattern of China’s coastal city tourism development and employs geo-detector methods to quantitatively analyze the impact factors driving this evolution. Key findings reveal distinct trends in the coastal tourism economy of China from 2009 to 2019, characterized by spatial stability, similar trends in adjacent spatial units, and localized spatial structures. Notably, factors such as actual foreign investment, the presence of star-rated guesthouses, tourism industry employment, airport activity, and import–export trade volume exert significant influence on the domestic tourism economy. Similarly, tourism employment, airport activity, availability of star-rated hotels, import–export trade, and utilization of foreign capital emerge as influential factors shaping inbound tourism. Policy recommendations emphasize the need for government intervention to optimize tourism development strategies for coastal cities. This entails balancing resource exploitation with environmental protection and enhancing the quality of tourism services, fostering sustainable growth and long-term prosperity.

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Forces of Tourism Economic Resilience in Chinese Provinces

This study focuses on the resilience of tourism economies in Chinese provinces, exploring their spatiotemporal evolution and driving forces as a crucial prerequisite for promoting the high-quality development of China’s tourism industry. We construct a resilience evaluation index system from four dimensions: resistance resilience, recovery resilience, reshaping resilience, and development resilience, using provincial tourism data from 2012 to 2022. The study employs Moran’s Index, kernel density estimation, and GIS technology to investigate the differentiation characteristics, spatial evolution processes, and spatial agglomeration characteristics of provincial tourism economic resilience in China. Finally, the GeoDetector model is used to analyze the driving factors. The findings are as follows: (1) Over time, most provinces and cities in China have shown varying degrees of improvement in tourism economic resilience, with different changes observed across the four dimensions. (2) Spatially, significant differences exist between provinces, with better resilience in the east than in the west and in the south than in the north. (3) Regionally, while no polarization is observed, there is a distinct differentiation between high and low-value areas. (4) Regional linkages indicate the presence of interregional associations in China’s tourism economic resilience, with non-uniform distribution of cold and hot spots. (5) Key driving factors include per capita railway mileage, domestic tourism revenue, the number of travel agencies, and the number of employees in accommodation and catering. Under the backdrop of rapid tourism economic development, improving infrastructure construction and enhancing the comprehensive strength of the tourism industry is vital for boosting tourism economic resilience.

Climate change and tourism demand: Risks for extreme heat?

Extremely high temperatures have become a major hurdle to tourists' experiences in various destinations. In this study, we present the first nationwide estimation of the temperature-tourism response function using a fine-grained panel dataset constructed by matching tourism data and daily meteorological datasets for 280 cities from 2005 to 2019 in China. Results show a non-linear relationship between temperature and tourism employing the temperature bins method, which is not sensitive to response equations. In addition, we conduct a rich heterogeneity analysis in the article to further analyse the effects of other external conditions on the temperature-tourism relationship, including the destination's level of tourism economic development, population, infrastructure development, and tourism resource endowment. We also observed that increasing summer temperatures result in decreased tourism arrivals and revenue, while rising autumn temperatures lead to increased tourism arrivals and revenue. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between temperature dynamics and tourism patterns, offering insights into destination management and adaptation strategies.

Coupling Relationship Between Rural Eco-Environment and Tourism Economic Development Based on Data

With the rapid development of economy, the contradiction between the ecological environment and economic development has become increasingly serious. The ecological environment is the foundation and prerequisite for the development of rural tourism, which promotes the rural ecological environment. The coordinated development of the two is of great significance to the sustainable development of rural tourism and the construction of rural ecological civilization. On the basis of combing the existing related research results, by constructing a rural tourism-ecological environment evaluation index system, using a coupling coordination degree evaluation model, this paper makes a comparative analysis of coupling degree and coordinated scheduling. The results show that there are obvious inter-annual differences in the coupling and coordination of rural tourism and the ecological environment in the county, and the overall development trend is positive. However, the coupling degree and coordination between the two is still at a relatively low level.

Can ‘brand effect’ promote the development of the tourism economy? – A quasi-natural experiment based on 204 cities

ABSTRACT Tourism branding is crucial for the high-quality development of the tourism economy. Governmental departments foster this development by creating distinctive tourism brands through ‘scenic spot selection’, thereby stimulating regional economic growth via the ‘brand effect’. This study employs the ‘5A’ scenic spot selection as a quasi-natural experiment, utilising panel data from 204 prefecture-level cities in China spanning 2007–2019. It applies staggered difference-in-differences and spatial difference-in-differences methods to evaluate the policy impact of scenic spot selection on urban tourism economic development and to analyze its heterogeneity and spatial effects. The findings demonstrate that high-grade scenic spots can indeed foster tourism economic development through the ‘brand effect’, although disparities exist among regions. This paper elucidates the policy implications of scenic spot selection on tourism economic development and offers a critical reference for optimising the spatial allocation of tourism resources and cultivating distinctive tourism brands.

Spatial Mismatch of Tourism Resources and Tourism Economy in Guangxi, China

This study analyzed the spatial mismatch between tourism resources abundance and tourism economy development level in Guangxi, China. tourism resources abundance index, tourism economy development index, gravity model, and tourism spatial mismatch index were used. The results show that: (1) The spatial mismatch between tourism resources and tourism economy was obvious in Guangxi. The gravity center of tourism resources abundance was northeast-southwest, and the gravity center of tourism economy was southwest-northeast-southwest. (2) The degree of tourism spatial mismatch was different among the cities. The tourism spatial mismatch indexes in 3 cities had been consistently greater than 0, and they were always less than 0 in 4 cities. The other 7 cities were in a positive and negative alternating state. (3) The level of tourism spatial mismatch would change. There were a total of 6 cities that had basically remained in their original state, while the other cities had undergone certain changes.

Inclusive finance and regional tourism economy: The role of total factor productivity

Tourism economy is a key component of a region's GDP. Taking advantage of a panel data of 267 prefectures in China between 2010 and 2022, this research investigates the impact of inclusive finance on regional tourism economic development. We find that inclusive finance initiatives can significantly improve the tourism industry. In addition, we find total factor productivity substantially strengthens the positive relationship between inclusive finance and regional tourism economy. This study contributes to the burgeoning research on the consequences of inclusive finance and regional development.

Study on the Coupling Coordination Between Tourism Economy and Technology Innovation in China Costal Regions

ABSTRACT The study investigates the interplay between the tourism economy and technological innovation in China’s coastal provinces and cities, uncovering the dynamics of regional and sub-regional coupling and coordination from 2014 to 2022. Empirical findings indicate that the overall degree of coupling coordination among 11 coastal provinces and cities exhibited a rising trend from significant imbalance to good coordination from 2014 to 2019, but underwent fluctuations due to the impact of COVID-19 from 2020 to 2022. Sub-regional analysis reveals dynamic changes in coastal provinces and cities such as the Yangtze River Delta, Bohai Rim, and Pearl River Delta, highlighting the coupling, coordination, and competition between tourism economy and technological innovation in these economic zones. The results suggest that regional alliances can be established to promote the integration of tourism economic development with technological innovation in China’s coastal areas, while emphasizing active support measures by local and central governments for long-term development.

Study on the Coupling Development of Xi 'an Tourism Economy and Transportation

Taking Xi 'an City as the research object and taking 2015-2021 as the time dimension, this paper constructs an evaluation system for the development level of tourism economy and transportation. On this basis, the coupled coordination model is used to analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics of the coupled and coordinated development of tourism economy system and transportation system. The results show that both the comprehensive evaluation index and the coupling coordination degree of Xi 'an city increased year by year from 2015 to 2019, and the interaction between them became stronger and stronger. The relative development index in 2020 is less than 0.9, indicating that transport has insufficient support for tourism economic development, and it is less than 0.6 in 2015 and 2016, indicating that transport has not fully played its role in tourism economic development.

Differences in tourism economic development and its influencing factors among three major city clusters along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

An in-depth study of the mechanisms governing the generation, evolution, and regulation of differences in tourism economics holds significant value for the rational utilization of tourism resources and the promotion of synergistic tourism economic development. This study utilizes mathematical statistical analysis and GIS spatial analysis to construct a single indicator measure and a comprehensive indicator measure to analyze tourism-related data in the research area from 2004 to 2019. The main factors influencing the spatial and temporal differences in the tourism economy are analyzed using two methods, namely, multiple linear regression and geodetector. The temporal evolution, overall differences and differences within each city group fluctuate downwards, while the differences between groups fluctuate upwards. Domestic tourism economic differences contribute to over 90% of the overall tourism economic differences. Spatial divergence, the proportion of the tourism economy accounted for by spatial differences is obvious, the comprehensive level of the tourism economy can be divided into five levels. The dominant factors in the formation of the pattern of spatial and temporal differences in the tourism economy are the conditions of tourism resources based on class-A tourist attractions and the level of tourism industry and services based on star hotels and travel agencies. This study addresses the regional imbalance of tourism economic development in city clusters and with the intent of promoting balanced and high-quality development of regional tourism economies.

Investigating The Role of Culture and Tourism in The Economic and Social Development of Developing Countries and Its Impact on Global Growth

Cultural tourism is one of the oldest and most prosperous tourisms in the world, which dates back to the history of cultural culture. The prosperity of cultural tourism will lead to economic development and cultural and social changes. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the role of factors affecting cultural tourism in economic development and cultural and social changes. This article explains the characteristics of cultural tourism and its importance in all-round growth and development according to the image of cultural tourism. This research seeks to answer the basic question, what are the factors affecting the development of cultural tourism? What strategies can be formulated and presented for the development of cultural tourism in the country? The presented research method is mixed in terms of practical purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection. For this purpose, after stating the topic and examining the background of the research, the role of factors affecting cultural tourism in economic development and social effects was identified. The results showed that cultural tourism has an effect on both economic and cultural variables of the tourism area. Also, according to the findings of the research, among the identified factors, the factors of providing information about cultural places and their history, promoting tourism businesses for tourist, and creating security are more important than other factors in the development of tourism.

Influence of China’s Lighting Industry on Urban Nighttime Tourism Economic Development: Based on Co-Integration Test and Granger Causality Test

With the upgrading of residents’ consumption and the diversification of the consumption structure, China’s urban night-time tour economy has developed rapidly and become a new bright spot of urban development. As an important constituent part of urban night landscapes, the lighting industry is closely related to the development of nighttime tour economy. To further explore the influence of the lighting industry on urban night-time tour economy, the short-term and long-term cointegration relationship between the lighting industry and urban night-time tour economy was analysed by the cointegration test, and the causal relationship between the two was explored through the Granger causality test. The ADF unit root test revealed that the lighting industry and urban night-time tour belonged to second-order single integration; the Johansen cointegration test exhibited a co-integration relationship between the lighting industrial and urban night-time tour; the regression coefficient of the lighting industry (independent variable) was 0.788, showing a significance level of 0.01 (t=22.470, P=0.000<0.01); the error correction coefficient was –0.489, showing a significance level of 0.01 (t= –3.912, P=0.001<0.01). When the short-term fluctuation of the night-time tour economy deviated from the long-term equilibrium, the lighting industry would pull the night-time tour economy from an unbalanced state back to an equilibrium state with the adjustment power of –0.489. The lighting industry was only the one-way Granger result of urban night-time tour. The research results have important reference value for figuring out how China’s lighting industry can promote the development of urban night-time tour economy, guiding it to achieve high-quality development, and enhancing the strong support from the lighting industry for development of night-time tour economy.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on tourism economy development in Cyprus and Croatia


 
 
 In the years 2020–2021, the global tourism economy faced a huge crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its particular waves. The year 2022 was supposed to be the beginning of the reconstruction of the inbound tourism sector in the world. However, for Cyprus and Croatia, the events of February 24, 2022, called into question the continued functioning of a large part of the inbound tourism sector. The aim of this article is to answer the question: what was the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the size and structure of foreign inbound tourism to Cyprus and Croatia? The second aim of the article is to answer the question: what is the expected impact of the war in Ukraine on the tourism sector of the Cypriot and Croatian economies? The methods used in the article were: the analysis of statistical data and the analysis of literature.
 
 

The role of big data in the integrated development of culture and tourism public services

The integrated development of culture and tourism public services can better enhance the value of scenic spots, promote the spread of Chinese excellent culture, and drive the development of tourism economy. Big data technology can predict the future development law of transactions based on historical data. It can meet the needs of tourists and tourism enterprises in a targeted manner. This paper aims at the integrated development practice of tea culture and tourism public services in the era of big data, analyzes the influencing factors of the integrated development of tea culture tourism and public services in Tianfu Tea Garden and the problems existing in the development process of Tianfu Tea Garden, and designs data analysis algorithms through big data technology, and put forward development suggestions combined with big data technology, mainly including improving the industrial chain; improving the overall development scope of the scenic spot; strengthening the quality training of tea garden employees; improving infrastructure; highlighting the connotation of tea culture in scenic spots; developing and researching new tourism products; increase the publicity and construction of scenic spots, so as to provide reference for the development of tea culture and tourism in Tianfu Tea Garden.

Impact of Tourism in Economic Development - A Study with Reference to Vellore District

India is widely recognized as one of the most ancient civilizations, characterized by its diverse and culturally significant past. India has long been a focal point of interest for various individuals due to a multitude of factors. India possesses a time-honored heritage of tourism. The industry in question was present within the informal sector since ancient times and was engaged in by individuals from many social groups. India, as an expansive and heterogeneous nation, has something to provide for all individuals. The conventional manner in which visitors are received in India is rooted in the mythological notion of ‘Athithi Devo Bhavah’, which translates to ‘Guest is God’. This is the most recent slogan the Indian tourism sector has used. In order for India to become a global leader in the tourism industry, it is imperative that all branches of the central and state governments, the private sector, and voluntary organizations actively collaborate to achieve sustainable growth in tourism. This is because tourism is a multifaceted activity and primarily a service industry. This study seeks to examine and assess the influence of tourism on the economic progress of Vellore District. This study holds significant importance as a substantial number of individuals visited Vellore, not alone for medical treatment but also for tourism purposes. The prominent tourist destinations in and around Vellore encompass the Historic Vellore Fort, Government Museum, Science Park, Vainu Bappu Observatory, and Amirthi Zoological Park, as well as religious sites such as Jalakandeswarar Temple, Srilakshmi Golden Temple, Big Mosque, St. John’s Church, Yelagiri Hill Station, and CMCH, which offers exceptional medical care at an affordable price.

The Influence Factors of Economic Development of Tourism Industry

Objectives: This paper aims to conduct research on the factors that impact the advancement of the tourism economy in order to adapt to the rapidly changing demands of the tourism market. Methods: A case study was performed using a gray correlation model to analyze the tourism industry in Henan Province. Findings: Among the first-level indicators, tourism economic support had the highest correlation with tourism economic development, followed by tourism physical base, tourism transportation influence, tourism human resources, and tourism information service. Then, relevant suggestions were given according to the analysis results. Novelty:The novelty of this article lies in utilizing the gray correlation model to examine the factors that influence the tourism economy and analyzing the gray system with incomplete information. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2024-05-01-03 Full Text: PDF

Spatiotemporal evolution and mechanisms of tourism efficiency and its decomposition: Evidence from 63 counties in Zhejiang, China.

Although efficiency analysis could reflect the state and quality of tourism's economic development, no research has been conducted investigating the spatiotemporal evolution and mechanisms of county-level tourism efficiency. We quantified tourism efficiency and its decomposition in 63 counties of Zhejiang, employing the bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA), hot spot analysis, and quantile regression to explore the spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of tourism efficiency, and examine its driving and constraining mechanisms. The results uncovered obvious upward trends in the tourism efficiency of Zhejiang's counties, with the mean value increasing from 0.285 to 0.688. Compared with scale efficiency, the influence of technological efficiency on the growth of comprehensive efficiency increased remarkably. Significant differences were evident in the spatial distributions of the identified hot and cold spots of comprehensive efficiency, which were respectively distributed in northern and southern Zhejiang. The distributions of decomposition efficiency were found to be spatially dependent. The driving mechanism of tourism efficiency involve two driving influences and two constraining influences, including economy and resource driving, market and traffic driving, industry and traffic constraining, and market and industry constraining. The findings of this study contribute to understanding of tourism efficiency growth in regional destinations and provide insights for strategic policymaking in various counties of Zhejiang.

Potensi Wisata Edukasi Berbasis Experiential Learning dan Pemasarannya di Kampoeng Kids Kota Batu, Jawa Timur untuk Menjangkau Segmen Pasar Yang Diharapkan

Tourism in Indonesia plays a crucial role as an economic sector with the potential for increasing foreign exchange earnings. Batu City, known as a tourist destination, offers various business opportunities related to tourism. Kampoeng Kidz, an educational land in Batu, holds potential as a sustainable tourism destination with its nature-based learning programs and scenic beauty. However, Kampoeng Kidz faces challenges in digital marketing, particularly during the pandemic, which resulted in a decline in visitor numbers. This research aims to develop a digital marketing strategy, with a focus on social media, to enhance visibility and visits to Kampoeng Kidz. In the context of Law No. 10 of 2009 on Tourism, this study highlights the role of tourism in economic development and provides a rationale for the urgency of digital marketing development. The research employs a qualitative descriptive method with the Branding Gelder theory approach. This approach allows for the reduction of irrelevant information, selecting only interesting, important, and useful information (Sugiyono, 2016). The study was conducted at Kampoeng Kidz using data collection techniques such as interviews, documentation, and observation. Data analysis involves data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Tourist visit data to attractions in Batu City in 2020 indicate that Kampoeng Kidz had a relatively low number of visitors compared to other tourist attractions. The focus on educational tourism and its pre-pandemic recognition provide the basis for this research. Kampoeng Kidz needs to strengthen its digital marketing, especially through social media, to reach a wider audience.

Analysis of the coordinated evolution and driving mechanism of the coupling of tourism economy and urbanization in Southwest China

ABSTRACT The coordinated development of the tourism economy and urbanization is one of the hot issues in the practice and research of regional development. Exploring the complex dynamic relationship between the two can promote new urbanization construction and sustainable regional economic development. This paper uses the coupled coordination degree (CCD) model and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) model to study the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and driving mechanisms of the coordinated development of Southwest China’s tourism industry and urbanization. The results show that from 2010 to 2020, the comprehensive level of tourism economic development is in an inverted ‘V’ shape, while the complete level of urbanization is on a continuous upward trend. The spatial difference for CCD between the tourism economy and urbanization is remarkable, offering a spatial pattern of the highest in the middle, the second in the east, and the lowest in the west. In addition, the urbanization rate, population density, per capita fiscal revenue, and per capita park green land have significant negative spatial effects on CCD. Per capita budgetary revenue has a positive spatial effect on CCD with a time lag. This study provides a decision-making reference for promoting tourism development and urbanization in southwest regions.

Research on the Innovative Development of “She” Ethnic Tourism in Sanming

The tourism of the “She” ethnic group in Sanming is centered on “She” culture and creativity, based on intellectual property rights, market-oriented, and mainly focused on cultural and creative products and services. The Sanming “She” ethnic group has a rich history and cultural resources. Making full use of cultural resources and developing them reasonably can promote the ecological development of the “She” tourism. This article explores the interrelationships and interdependence between various links in the ecosystem of the Sanming “She” tourism from the current development status, contemporary value, and future development trends of the Sanming “She” tourism. It attempts to explore a new path for innovative development of the Sanming “She” tourism, in order to play the important role of the “She” tourism in economic development and promote the sustainable development of the “She” tourism better.