Coordination pattern and driving mechanism of digital economy and high-quality tourism development in China
Digital economy is an important driving force for the transformation and development of China's social economy and the optimization of regional industrial structure.Tourism is a happiness industry with unique influence in the new era.It is of great significance to explore the coupling and coordinated develop-ment of them.However,most researches focus on exploring the impact of digital technology,digital infrastruc-ture and other relevant elements of digital economy on the development of tourism,while there is still little re-search on the interaction between the digital economy itself and tourism from the perspective of high-quality development,and their coupling mechanism and spatio-temporal pattern need to be further clarified.Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China(excluding Hong Kong,Macao and Taiwan)from 2013 to 2020,this paper adopts the panel entropy method to measure the level of digital economy and high-quality tourism devel-opment.Based on the coupling coordination model,spatial autocorrelation analysis and geodetector,the spatio-temporal pattern,spatial correlation and driving mechanism of the coupling coordination between digital eco-nomy and high-quality tourism development are discussed.The results show that:1)From the perspective of time,the coupling coordination degree and relative development degree of digital economy and high-quality tourism development show an increasing trend year by year.In terms of coupling coordination degree,al-though most provinces are still in the stage of moderate imbalance(Ⅱ),the coordination trend continues to im-prove over time.Meanwhile,the relative development degree of the two has experienced a change process of"lagging-synchronous-advanced"development of the digital economy.2)From the perspective of space,dur-ing the study period,the number of provinces in the coordination stage(Ⅲ and Ⅳ)is increasing,and the spa-tial evolution pattern is expanding from the east to the central and western regions of China.The stage trans-ition phenomenon of their relative development degrees is obvious,and the number of provinces in the eastern region is significantly more than that in the central and western China.3)There is a positive spatial correlation between the degree of coupling and coordination of digital economy and high-quality tourism development and has a trend of increasing.The spatial correlation intensity of the coupling coordination degree of the 4 regions presents a spatial pattern of"West>East>Middle>Northeast"in China.Most of the eastern regions are"HH"clusters,while most of the western regions are"LL"clusters.4)The degree of coupling and coordination between digital economy and high-quality tourism development is driven by economic,social and labor factors.Among them,the explanatory power of scientific research level,labor force in the tertiary industry and trans-portation level is significantly higher than that of other driving factors.From the perspective of supply and de-mand,this paper systematically constructs the coupling mechanism between digital economy and high-quality tourism development,and clarifies the interaction between them.This paper can make provinces clearly under-stand the high-quality development level of local digital economy and tourism,so as to provide theoretical sup-port and decision-making basis for tourism destination planning and development,digital economy and tour-ism macro policy formulation,industrial structure adjustment.
digital economytechnological innovationtourism industrydigital cultural tourismhigh-quality development