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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (2): 224-234.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.394

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Mechanism of new quality productive forces impact on the high-quality development of tourism: Based on empirical evidence from nine provinces and autonomous regions in the Yellow River Basin

ZHOU Wenli(), WU Shanshan(), SU Peng   

  1. College of Business Administration, Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, Lanzhou 730020, Gansu, China
  • Received:2025-07-14 Revised:2025-09-18 Online:2026-02-25 Published:2026-02-27
  • Contact: WU Shanshan E-mail:wlzhou520@163.com;wss00533@163.com

Abstract:

To investigate the impact of new quality productive forces on the high-quality development of tourism, clarify their mutual influence, and improve the high-quality development of tourism. This study used nine provinces and autonomous regions in the Yellow River Basin as the research subject to establish a measurement index system for new quality productive forces and the high-quality development of tourism. Entropy values, fixed-effects models, and mediation effect models were used to measure new quality productive forces and the high-quality development of tourism in the nine provinces and autonomous regions from 2013 to 2022, analyzing their mutual influence. The results reveal that (1) New quality productive forces significantly and positively affect the high-quality development of tourism. (2) Cultural-tourism integration and technological progress mediate the relationship between new quality productive forces and the high-quality development of tourism. (3) New quality productive forces exert a more pronounced promotional effect on the high-quality development of tourism in regions with lower economic development levels. (4) Each component of new-type productive forces (new technologies, laborers, objects of labor, and means of labor) promotes the high-quality development of tourism, with laborers and means of labor playing more prominent roles at present. Therefore, localities should completely recognize the guiding values of new quality productive forces, formulate differentiated developmental strategies based on regional realities, and advance the high-quality development of tourism to help achieve the goals of Chinese modernization.

Key words: new quality productive forces, the high-quality development of tourism, integration of culture and tourism, technological progress, Yellow River Basin