How digital infrastructure supports emerging forms of urban digital tourism in China
Jielong Huang, Wenbin Ling, Shanni Ye, Rabnawaz Khan, Qifu Lai
TL;DR
Digital infrastructure in China is boosting urban digital tourism by supporting new businesses and improving tourism efficiency.
Contribution
This study demonstrates how digital infrastructure drives urban digital tourism entrepreneurship using a DID model and policy analysis.
Findings
Digital infrastructure promotes urban digital tourism entrepreneurship by enhancing digital talent concentration and technological innovation.
The effect is stronger in cities with cultural value, good administrative resources, and tourist attractions.
Resource siphoning threatens non-adjacent regions, highlighting the need for cross-city collaboration.
Abstract
China’s ongoing digital transformation, supported by proactive government policies, is fundamentally reshaping urban tourism through strategic development of digital infrastructure. This study employs a Difference-in-Differences (DID) model, taking the Broadband China policy as a quasi-natural experiment, to examine the driving effects and mechanisms of digital infrastructure development on emerging forms of urban digital tourism entrepreneurship. The results show that: (1) digital infrastructure development can facilitate the development of emerging forms for urban digital tourism entrepreneurship. Even after controlling for endogeneity, other policy intervention, and robustness in parallel trend testing, the outcome remains unchanged. Digital infrastructure has the potential to foster the growth of new types of urban digital tourism businesses by increasing the concentration of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDigital Marketing and Social Media · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Smart Cities and Technologies