Tourism Economic Effects of Public Cultural Service Demonstration Zones under the Per-spective of Cultural Industry Agglomeration
As China enters a new development phase towards becoming a"cultural powerhouse"and achieving deeper integration of culture and tourism,public cultural services are gradually emerging as a critical lever for enhancing regional cultural influence and driving local tourism economic development.Employing a counterfactual analysis framework based on a multi-period difference-in-differences model,panel data spanning from 2008 to 2019 for 281 prefecture-level cities in China were utilized to identify the tourism economic effects of creating public cultural service demonstration zones.Empirical analyses show that the creation of public cultural demonstration zones significantly boosted the development of the regional tourism economy,and this promotion effect is mainly on domestic tourists,the impact on foreign tourists is not significant.Mechanism analysis reveals that the concentration of cultural industries is a vital pathway through which public cultural service demonstration zones unlock the tourism economic effects.Furthermore,the research finds that the promotional effects of creating public cultural demonstration zones on tourism economies exhibit regional heterogeneity,with a more pronounced impact in cities with lower cultural and tourism resource endowments but a higher level of digital economic development.The study's findings further expand the scope of research at the intersection of culture and the economy.They offer valuable insights for policymakers and scholars,providing a beneficial framework for enhancing public cultural services to promote the development of culture-tourism integration,ultimately contributing to the goal of shared prosperity in the nation's spiritual well-being.
cultural industry agglomerationpublic cultural servicestourism economic developmentdifference-in-differences model
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维普
