The spatial effect of tourism economic development on regional ecological efficiency
- PDF / 528,194 Bytes
- 18 Pages / 595.276 x 790.866 pts Page_size
- 85 Downloads / 184 Views
RESEARCH ARTICLE
The spatial effect of tourism economic development on regional ecological efficiency Chen Haibo 1 & Dong Ke 1 & Wang Fangfang 1 & Emmanuel Caesar Ayamba 1 Received: 3 February 2020 / Accepted: 22 April 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The process of tourism economic development is accompanied by the consumption of energy and environment. It is of a big significance to measure the level of tourism economic development and regional eco-efficiency correctly to clarify the relationship between them, as it contributes to realizing the high-quality development of the tourism economy and the construction of “beautiful China”. On the basis of the panel data of China’s 30 provinces and cities from 2002 to 2016, the paper intends to evaluate the regional eco-efficiency and tourism economic development level by using the super-efficiency DEA model and the grey entropy weight method, and then construct spatial panel econometric model which is based on the previous data to deeply discuss the influence of tourism economy development on regional ecological efficiency and its spatial effect. The research shows that (1) regional ecological efficiency has significant spatial dependence and spatial aggregation characteristics. With the passing of time, this kind of positive spatial autocorrelation is gradually strengthened. (2) In the long-term development, tourism economic development and regional ecological efficiency show a more obvious “Kuznets curve” effect. (3) The “U”-curve relationship between urbanization, environmental regulation, and regional eco-efficiency was confirmed. (4) In the process of tourism economic transformation and development, industrial pollution control, environmental regulation, technological level, urbanization, and investment openness are the main factors that affect the improvement of ecological efficiency in the local region. (5) Tourism economic development and urbanization levels have different spatial spillover effects in different periods, while investment openness has obvious positive spillover effects. Keywords Tourism economic development . Regional ecological efficiency . Kuznets curve . Spillover effect . Spatial panel measurement model
Introduction As China’s economic development enters a new period, the economic structure and development mode have undergone corresponding adjustment and transformation. The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that the transition from high-speed development to high-quality development is a basic feature of the new period, and the 19th National Congress report further indicated that China’s economy has changed from the highResponsible editor: Eyup Dogan * Chen Haibo [email protected] 1
School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, People’s Republic of China
speed growth stage to the high-quality development stage. In the process of economic development, focusing on the unification of economic development and ecological ef
Data Loading...
