数字经济赋能城市旅游业韧性的空间效应与作用机制

To effectively leverage the positive role of the digital economy in enhancing the resilience of the tourism system is crucial for ensuring the stable and long-term development of the tourism economy and achieving high-quality growth. To this end, the article integrates multisource data to construct a panel dataset of 285 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2011 to 2019, analyzes the evolutionary characteristics between the digital economy and tourism industry resilience from the spatial and temporal dimensions, and empirically examines the influence process, regional heterogeneity, and the mechanism of action by using the panel spatial Durbin model. The research finds that: 1) The digital economy and the resilience of the tourism industry as a whole are on an upward trend, and the development gap between cities has narrowed slightly in a converging trend. In terms of spatial distribution, the former shows a “ladder-like” pattern of high in the east and low in the west, while the latter shows a spatial evolution pattern of “central collapse”. 2) Digital economy and tourism industry resilience have strong spatial agglomeration characteristics, while the two show significant positive spatial correlation. 3) The digital economy not only enhances the resilience of the local tourism industry, but also acts on neighboring cities through spatial spillover effects. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the degree of influence of the direct effect is: Northeast > East > West > Central, and high digital economy region > low digital economy region; at the same time, the Central Region shows a negative spillover effect, while the high digital economy region shows a significant positive spillover effect. 4) Mechanism tests indicate that tourism innovation capability and tourism market influence are the two major paths through which the digital economy enables tourism industry resilience. The results of the study can provide a policy basis for effectively promoting the digital transformation of multiple tourism actors at the municipal scale, improving the ability to respond to crisis events, and promoting the sustainable and high-quality development of the tourism industry.