Research on the Economic Effects of Regional Inbound Tourism Based on Internet Diffusion

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10.2991/meici-17.2017.69How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Internet diffusion; Inbound tourism; Panel data; Tourism economy

Abstract

Using the Internet to transform the tourism model and enhance the ability and experience of online travel service is an important measure to develop the Intelligent Tourism in many places. For empirical analysis, a panel data model was set up based on the relationship between Internet resources such as Internet users, domain names, websites and regional inbound tourism revenue in China's 31 provinces in 2003-2015. The result shows that the Internet plays a positive role in promoting China's inbound tourism economy; Internet users penetration rate and the increase in the number of sites are relatively significant on China's inbound tourism economic development; an obvious regional difference was appeared by the impact of Internet on regional inbound tourism economy; And the lag effect model shows that the Internet lag effect on inbound tourism economy reaches the maximum in the 4th year.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guanghai Tang
AU  - Ruili Chu
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Research on the Economic Effects of Regional Inbound Tourism Based on Internet Diffusion
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 355
EP  - 363
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/meici-17.2017.69
DO  - 10.2991/meici-17.2017.69
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