数字经济对旅游业高质量发展的影响及空间溢出效应

Influence and spatial spillover effects of the digital economy on the high-quality development of the tourism industry

数字经济是促进新时代旅游业高质量发展的重要引擎。论文基于中国280个地级以上城市2011—2019年面板数据,采用熵权TOPSIS法测算旅游业高质量发展水平与数字经济发展水平,依托空间杜宾模型揭示数字经济对旅游业高质量发展的影响及空间溢出效应。研究发现:数字经济对旅游业高质量发展具有直接影响,且存在“倒U”型的非线性关系,该结论经过一系列稳健性检验后仍显著成立;进一步分析表明,数字经济对邻近地区的旅游业高质量发展具有空间溢出效应,且存在“U”型的非线性关系。研究结果为数字经济对旅游业高质量发展的影响研究提供了新的视角,也为深化数字经济助力旅游业高质量发展提供了理论借鉴和经验证据。

The digital economy is a new driving force for the high-quality development of the tourism industry in the new era.In recent years,with the emergence of blockchain,artificial intelligence,Internet of Things,and other emerging technologies,scientific and technological achievements have been rapidly transformed and put into production.Digital technology has become an important force to promote the restructuring of production factors,the improvement of production efficiency,and the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure.The deep integration of tourism—as a tertiary sector of the economy—and digital technology has become the key factor in promoting the upgrading of tourism industry structure.The digital economy,with its powerful productivity and high knowledge intensive form,reshapes the production mode of the tourism industry,improves its efficiency,and injects new momentum into the high-quality development of the tourism industry.However,there is a lack of theoretical exploration and empirical testing of the relationship between the digital economy and the high-quality development of the tourism industry.On the basis of analyzing the role of the digital economy in the high-quality development of the tourism industry,this study constructed an indicator system to measure the level of digital economy development and high-quality development of the tourism industry in 280 cities at the prefecture level and above in China from 2011 to 2019,and used the spatial Durbin model to empirically test the impact of the digital economy on the high-quality development of the tourism industry and its spatial spillover effects.The results show that the digital economy had a direct impact on the high-quality development of the tourism industry,and there was an inverted U-shaped nonlinear relationship.This result is still significantly valid after a series of robustness tests.Further analysis indicates that the digital economy had a spatial spillover effect on the high-quality development of tourism in neighboring regions,and a U-shaped nonlinear relationship existed.The results offer a new perspective for analyzing the impact of the digital economy on the high-quality development of the tourism industry,and provide theoretical reference and empirical evidence for leveraging the digital economy to support the high-quality development of the tourism industry.