Can the Tourism Urbanization Promote the Green Economic Efficiency?A Verification Based on Panel Data of 28 Prefecture-Level Cities in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River
Under the strategic background of vigorously promoting new-type urbanization construction and seeking high-quality development,it is of great practical significance to demonstrate the relationship between tourism urbanization construction and green economic efficiency.Based on the 28 cities panel data(2006-2020)of urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River,the response model of tourism urbanization and super-efficiency SBM model was used to estimate and analyze the level of tourism urbanization and the level of green economy efficiency,and the evolution characteristics of their spatial-temporal patterns were analyzed.Applying panel regression model to empirically analyze the impact of tourism urbanization on green economy efficiency and the heterogeneity of sub-agglomerations.Major findings of this research are:the level of tourism urbanization and green economy efficiency of urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River during the study period showed a fluctuating and rising trend,and the growth trend was not stable,showing phase differentiation;the level of tourism urbanization presents a spatial pattern of"high in the east and low in the west,high in the south and low in the north",the efficiency level of green economy shows the spatial evolution characteristics of"small dispersion and large contiguous piece";the level of tourism urbanization has an inhibitory effect on the improvement of green economic efficiency,and the inhibitory intensity of sub-urban agglomerations shows the ranking pattern of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration>Wuhan metropolitan area>Poyang lake urban agglomeration;on the whole,economic development level,opening up level and environmental regulation intensity can significantly promote the improvement of green economic efficiency.Government intervention inhibits the improvement of green economy efficiency,and there are obvious regional differences in the influence of each control variable on the scale of sub-urban agglomerations.
tourism urbanizationgreen economic efficiencyspatial distribution patternurban agglomeration of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River