How does the integration of cultural and tourism industries impact the value added to tourism value chain: Evidences from Jiangsu Province of China.

ABSTRACT: China has been fully implementing the policy of the cultural and tourism industrial integration since 2018. However, the value-added benefits of this policy are not prominent, and the relationship between industrial integration and the value added to the tourism value chain was seldom addressed by researchers. In the context of China's high-quality development, it is necessary to conduct the impact of the integration of cultural and tourism industries on the value added to tourism value chain. This paper proposed four theoretical hypotheses and the corresponding econometric models based on the panel data from 2013 to 2020 in China's Jiangsu Province. According to empirical results, the integration of cultural and tourism industries is spatially unbalanced, with notable imbalances between t

SUBMITTER: Zeng M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10309601 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature