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The spatial effect of tourism economic development on regional ecological efficiency

Environmental Science and Pollution Research volume 27, pages 38241–38258 (2020)Cite this article

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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.

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This work was supported by the General Project of National Social Science Fund: Research on the Motivation and Path of Supply-side Structural Reform for High-quality Development of China’s Tourism Economy under Grant number [18BJY198]

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    Chen Haibo, Dong Ke, Wang Fangfang & Emmanuel Caesar Ayamba

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Table 13 Evaluation results of regional ecological efficiency in 30 provinces and cities in China from 2002 to 2016
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Table 14 Evaluation results of tourism economic development levels in 30 provinces and cities in China from 2002 to 2016
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Haibo, C., Ke, D., Fangfang, W. et al. The spatial effect of tourism economic development on regional ecological efficiency. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 38241–38258 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09004-8

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Keywords

  • Tourism economic development
  • Regional ecological efficiency
  • Kuznets curve
  • Spillover effect
  • Spatial panel measurement model