Mechanism of impact and spatial effects of digital economy in enhancing tourism economic resilience
The digital economy enables the intelligent transformation of tourism,and has become a new focus for the stable and sustainable development of China's tourism economy.On the basis of clarifying the spatiotemporal mechanism of impact of the digital economy on tourism economic resilience,this study used the panel data from 211 excellent tourism cities in China from 2011 to 2020 and the mediation effect model and panel threshold spatial Durbin model to test the mechanism and spatial spillover effect of the digital economy impact on tourism economic resilience.The results show that:1)Spatially,the development of the digital economy during the research period consistently showed a distribution trend of high in the east and low in the west,and exhibited a clustered patchy distribution pattern within regions;tourism economic resilience was relatively dispersed during the research period,and the spatial differences between the eastern,central,western,and northeastern regions showed a trend of convergence.2)The digital economy had a significant positive impact on tourism economic resilience.For every 1 unit increase in the level of digital economy development,tourism economic resilience increased by 0.2748,which has passed the robustness test.3)In terms of the mechanism of impact of the digital economy on tourism economic resilience,the digital economy promoted the improvement of tourism economic resilience by increasing the level of tourism economic growth in the dimension of resistance ability,improving the technology carrier in the dimension of recovery capacity,and improving human capital in the dimension of reorganization ability.That is,tourism economic growth,technology carrier,and human capital are the main paths through which the digital economy has a significant positive impact on tourism economic resilience.4)The development of the digital economy has empowered the local tourism economy to enhance its resilience,but it has a siphon effect on tourism economic resilience of neighboring cities.The results of this study enrich the research on the antecedent factors affecting tourism economic resilience,and provide a reference for decision making based on the digital economy to empower high-quality development of the tourism economy.
digital economytourism economic resiliencemechanism of impactspatial spillover