Research of the Effect of Tourism Economic Contact on the Efficiency of the Tourism Industry

Yongquan Li, Rui Li, Wenqi Ruan and Chih-Hsing Liu
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Yongquan Li: Research Center of Tourism and Hospitality Management, College of Tourism, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, Fujian, China
Rui Li: College of Tourism, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, Fujian, China
Wenqi Ruan: College of Tourism, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, Fujian, China
Chih-Hsing Liu: Department of Tourism Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Gaoxiong 80778, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 14, 1-16

Abstract: Following regional tourism cooperation, the promotion of balanced sustainable development has begun to play a vital role in the tourism industry. Using the West Coast of the Strait urban agglomeration, China, as an example, this study uses a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyzes the nonlinear relationship between tourism economic contact intensity and tourism industry efficiency by constructing a mixed effect model. The results show the following: (1) In the early stage of regional tourism cooperation, the efficiency of the tourism industry will decrease with an increase in the intensity of tourism economic contact. As regional cooperation tends towards a stable stage, the efficiency of the tourism industry will continue to increase with the strengthening of the intensity of tourism economic contact. (2) The regional economic level harms the efficiency of the tourism industry. The urbanization level has a positive effect on the efficiency of the tourism industry. (3) The level of opening up and transportation development in the region will not only bring tourism resources or tourists, but also lead them to flow out. They have no significant impacts on the efficiency of the tourism industry.

Keywords: tourism contact; tourism efficiency; U-shaped; DEA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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