Redai dili (Jul 2024)
The Coordinated Relationship between Digital Economy and Culture-Tourism Industry Integration and Its Influencing Factors of China
Abstract
The digital economy, an important driving force for high-quality development in China, has great potential in empowering the cultural-tourism industry and promoting the high-quality development of digital culture tourism, which is key to scientifically examining the coordinated and adaptive relationship between the digital economy and cultural-tourism industry integration. This study constructed a comprehensive evaluation system based on the framework of coordinated development between the two systems. It used a coordinated relationship measurement model and exploratory spatial data analysis to characterize the spatiotemporal evolution of the coordinated digital economy and cultural-tourism industry integration between 2011 and 2020 in China. This study also identified its influencing factors using Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR). First, in terms of temporal evolution, the coordination index of China's digital economy and cultural tourism industry has maintained an upward trend, increasing from extremely low coordination (0.180) in 2011 to low-level coordination (0.279) in 2020. However, provincial differences still exist. Second, in terms of spatial distribution, there is a stable "east-central-west" decreasing gradient structure, with significant spatial coordination and agglomeration characteristics; hotspots and sub hotspots of the coordinated relationship are mainly concentrated in eastern and central China, while sub cold spots and cold spots mostly come from western and northeastern China. Third, each explanatory variable has a positive effect on the coordinated relationship between the digital economy and cultural-tourism industry integration. The high-value areas of government regulation and human capital showed a trend of spreading from east to west at the end of the research period. This indicated a significant promoting effect on the level of coordination development, while the urbanization level, technical capabilities, and Internet supply capacity showed a more significant driving effect in central and western China, with greater advantages in cultural and tourism resource endowment and more potential for development. This study constructed an analytical framework based on a collaborative development perspective for the coordinated relationship between the digital economy and cultural-tourism industry integration; it conducted empirical research to compensate for the limitations of the current research. This study also incorporated spatial analysis methods to examine the spatial correlation characteristics of the coordination relationship regarding the integration of the digital economy and cultural tourism industries, thereby expanding the conclusions of previous research based on econometric methods. Additionally, the regional heterogeneity of factors influencing the coordination relationship between the digital economy and cultural tourism industry integration was analyzed, and customized policy implications were proposed based on the research conclusions. Overall, this study provides an essential reference value for grasping the coordination relationship between the digital economy and cultural-tourism industry integration and for achieving high-quality development of digital cultural tourism.
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