The path research of technological innovation empowering tourism high-quality development in China
According to Schumpeter's innovation theory,technological innovation changes tourism development mode through eco-nomic structure and industrial structure to achieve tourism high quality development,and the core of which is sustainable growth of re-gional tourism economic efficiency.Based on the perspectives of capital empowerment,structural empowerment and functional empower-ment,this paper combined the theory of empowerment to explore the evolution patterns and inner mechanisms of tourism technology in-novation and regional tourism economic efficiency from 2000 to 2020.Meanwhile,the research used DEA-MI method,standard devia-tion ellipse model and mediating effect model to analyze empirically.The research results showed that regional tourism economic effi-ciency gradually converged to 1.000 standard line from 2000 to 2020,and broke through the restriction of the"Huhuanyong line".And its center of gravity had moved to the east.While tourism technological innovation coincided with the distribution of the"Huhuanyong line",and its center of gravity had moved to the central and western regions.But tourism technological innovation had not yet become the driving force to promote the growth of regional tourism economic efficiency directly in China.Meanwhile,there were differences in the effectiveness of paths for capital empowerment,structural empowerment,and functional empowerment in the eastern,central,and western regions.