Coupling Coordination Between Digital Economy and Tourism High-quality Development at the Provincial Level and Its Driving Factors
The digital economy empowers the tourism high-quality development,the tourism high-quality development forces and drives the release of new dynamics of the digital economy.Based on the panel data of 30 provincial-level regions of China in 2011-2019,this study sorts out the coupling mechanism between digital economy and tourism high-quality development,and explores the coupling coordination evolutionary of digital economy and tourism high-quality development by the means of the coupling coordination degree.It uses the methods of the obstacle degree model and panel Tobit model to diagnose the obstacle factors and analyze the external influencing factors of the two systems,respectively.It's found that:1)From 2011 to 2019,the comprehensive evaluation indexes of digital economy and tourism high-quality development both show dynamic growth in general,and both change from the"higher in coastal region and lower in central and western regions"distribution to"higher in the middle region and lower in the north and south of China"distribution.2)From 2011 to 2019,the overall coordination degree between tourism high-quality development and digital economy tends to be optimized,but it has the gap to reach the high-quality coordination,and the spatial distribution pattern of coupling coordination degree shows dynamic evolution which is from the"higher in eastern region,lower in western region and T-shaped"distribution characteristics,"lower in the north and south of China and T-shaped"distribution characteristics to"lower in the north and south of China,higher in the middle region and T-shaped"distribution characteristics.3)Most provincial-level regions have the same obstacle factors in the top three indicator layers of two subsystems,the rank of obstacle degrees from high value to low value is digital innovation,digital development and digital foundation respectively in the central and western regions,the middle zone and the north and south of China.In the eastern region and the"T-shaped"zone,the rank of obstacle degrees from high value to low value is digital development,digital innovation and digital foundation.4)The level of economic development,industrial structure,traffic accessibility,openness to the outside world,and education level positively influence the coordinated development of the two systems,while the urbanization process negatively influences the development of the two systems,the rank of the regression coefficients of all influencing factors from high value to low value is the eastern region,the central region,the western region,the T-shaped zone,the middle zone,the north and south of China.
digital economytourism high-quality developmentcoupling coordinationobstacle degreepanel Tobit model