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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 1026-1035.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.248

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Impact of civil aviation transport on inbound tourism economy: Based on perspective of heterogeneity and spatial spillover effects

FAN Xuexiu1,2(), LIU Wenping1(), JIANG Keshen1   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, Jiangsu, China
    2. School of Foreign Languages and Interational Business, Guilin University of Aerospace Industry, Guilin 541004, Guangxi, China
  • Received:2023-05-28 Revised:2023-10-07 Online:2024-06-25 Published:2024-07-09
  • Contact: LIU Wenping E-mail:helen-f@nuaa.edu.cn;liuwenping@nuaa.edu.cn

Abstract:

Civil aviation transport is the material subject of the passage for inbound passengers to China and is essential for realizing the value of tourism products. Collecting economic data from 31 Chinese provinces, cities, and autonomous regions from 2011 to 2022 and based on the degree of development of the inbound tourism economic with zonal measurement method, this study explores the heterogeneity spillover of air transportation to inbound tourism. By expanding single time series data to temporal and spatial panel data and establishing a spatial econometric model to simulate empirical results, the study concludes that: (1) China’s inbound tourism industry generally presents a trend of aggregation and cooperation. (2) Spatial differences exist in the cross-regional spillovers of inbound tourism caused by civil aviation transport. In regions with developed inbound tourism, the spillover is positive, while in areas with underdeveloped inbound tourism, it is negative. (3) Different regions have varying spatial agglomeration characteristics of inbound tourism. In regions with developed inbound tourism, a pronounced competitive agglomeration effect is present. In underdeveloped areas of inbound tourism, no-agglomeration characteristics are evident and tourism production factors have no spatial correlation. This research provides a theoretical basis for the rational allocation of civil aviation resources, promoting the regional integration of inbound tourism in China and contributing to its high-quality development.

Key words: civil aviation transport, spatial econometric, inbound tourism, space overflow