Research on the influence mechanisms of digital economy on tourism economic resilience—empirical evidence from China

Abstract

In recent years, the vulnerability of the tourism economy has been highlighted by public security incidents. To ensure high-quality development of the tourism industry, it is crucial to enhance tourism economic resilience (TER). Despite this adverse trend, the digital economy (DE) continues to develop robustly, bringing new vitality to the tourism industry and becoming an important means to enhance its resilience. Based on this, a panel fxed time efect model and a spatial lag model are constructed to study the impact mechanism of the DE on TER. The study fnds that the DE has a signifcant direct positive impact on TER. Moreover, industrial structure optimization, innovation capacity, and human capital stock are all efective mediating mechanisms for the digital economy to enhance TER, and the mediating efect of industrial structure optimization is more obvious. The spatial spillover efect of the DE on TER is negative.