Study on the influence of global tourism development on the upgrading of county industrial structure

Heliyon. 2024 Oct 11;10(23):e39287. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39287. eCollection 2024 Dec 15.

Abstract

Taking the global tourism as an important grasp, promoting the tourism to the industrial structure optimization and economic development of the driving force, is conducive to the high-quality development of China's county economy. Based on the panel data of 255 demonstration counties of global tourism in 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2020, and on the basis of analyzing the correlation between the two, this paper empirically tests the relationship between the development of global tourism and the upgrading of county industrial structure by using static panel model and systematic GMM estimation method. It is found that the development of global tourism has a positive and significant impact on the upgrading of county industrial structure, and there are significant differences in this effect between the eastern, central and western regions of China. Therefore, this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions to promote the upgrading of county industrial structure through the development of global tourism.

Keywords: County economy; GMM estimate method; Global tourism; Static panel; Upgrading of industrial structure.