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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (4): 658-666.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2022.210

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Influence effect and driving mechanism of intercity trains on high-quality development of tourism economy in Xinjiang

BAI Yang1,2(),TAN Li’na1,2,CHEN Chunyan3,LI Zhuoyuan4   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of the Sustainable Development of Xinjiang’s Historical and Cultural Tourism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
    2. College of Tourism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
    3. Xinjiang Institute of Technology, Aksu 843100, Xinjiang, China
    4. College of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2022-05-10 Revised:2022-08-17 Online:2023-04-25 Published:2023-04-28

Abstract:

This study empirically explores the effect of intercity trains on the high-quality development of tourism economy in Xinjiang, China using a multi-period difference-in-difference model and based on the municipal panel data from 2010 to 2019. It also measures the evaluation index of the high-quality development of the tourism economy through the entropy value assignment method. The conclusions of this paper are as follows: (1) The study revealed an uneven high-quality tourism economic development in Xinjiang, and its evolution pattern is “monocentric radiation→bicentric radiation”. (2) The presence of intercity trains effectively improves the high-quality development of tourism economy in northern Xinjiang with negative adjustment effect and has no significant indigenous influence on southern Xinjiang with positive adjustment effect. (3) Intercity trains have significant influence on medium-level cities with high-quality development of tourism economy but have no significant influence on high-level cities and low-level cities. (4) The significant positive effect of the intercity trains on impact mechanism of development dimension is innovative development>shared development>green development>open development, and the impact on the coordinated development is not significant. This study enriches the classic cases of the integrated development of “railway+tourism” and helps explore the path mode of high-quality integrated development of intercity train and tourism economy.

Key words: high-quality development of tourism economy, intercity train, multi-period DID, influence effect, driving mechanism