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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (3): 440-450.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.375

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Impact of new quality productive forces on the high-quality development of ecotourism in China

SHI Zhuoda(), YANG Hongwei()   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2025-06-30 Revised:2025-07-22 Online:2026-03-25 Published:2026-03-24
  • Contact: YANG Hongwei E-mail:shizhuoda@xjshzu.com;yanghongwei5@xjshzu.com

Abstract:

High-quality development of ecotourism is a key lever for easing resource constraints, optimizing national territorial space, and advancing green development. Using panel data from 278 prefecture-level cities in China from 2015 to 2024, this study constructs multidimensional composite index systems for new quality productive forces and high-quality development of ecotourism. We examine the effect of new quality productive forces on the high-quality development of ecotourism in China using a combination-weighting approach, a two-way fixed-effects model, and a mediation-effect model. The results show that (1) New quality productive forces significantly promotes the high-quality development of ecotourism, and this finding is robust. (2) The new quality productive forces can promote the high-quality development of ecotourism through three paths: green technological innovation, optimization of the tourism industry structure, and institutional innovation. (3) The effect of new quality productive forces on the high-quality development of ecotourism is stronger in nonresource-based areas and ecological security barrier areas than in resource-based areas and non-ecological security barrier areas. By focusing on emerging ecotourism business forms, this study clarifies the mechanisms through which new quality productive forces drives high-quality development of ecotourism and provides theoretical implications for policies aimed at promoting high-quality development of ecotourism.

Key words: new quality productive forces, ecotourism, high quality development, green technological innovation, tourism industry structure