Does tourism contribute to the nighttime economy? Evidence from China

Jiekuan Zhang and Yan Zhang

Current Issues in Tourism, 2023, vol. 26, issue 8, 1295-1310

Abstract: The article estimates the impact of tourism on the nighttime economy drawing on panel data between 2005 and 2019 for Chinese 280 cities. Both tourist arrivals and tourism revenue have significant negative effects on nighttime economic development. Various rigorous robustness tests confirm the validity of this finding. In particular, the effect of tourist arrivals on the nighttime economy is significantly positive in Eastern and Western China and the period 2005-2009. On the contrary, tourism revenue still affects the nighttime economy negatively for different subsamples. Moreover, regional socioeconomic variables significantly weaken the negative effect of tourism on the nighttime economy. This paper is the first study of investigating the effects of tourism on the nighttime economy and the underlying moderating mechanisms, thus contributing significantly to the existing body of knowledge.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2022.2053073

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