Empirical Research on the Impact of Urbanization on Regional Tourism Economy in China Basing on Panel Data

Urbanization gatheres resources and basic service facilities, such as population, capital and so on, which creates important conditions for the development of regional tourism economy. In order to explore the impact of urbanization on regional tourism economy in china, the impact of urbanization on regional tourism economy was analyzed with method of csw basing on panel data of 239 prefecture level cities of china. The regression coefficients pass significant test at 0.01 levels by csw. Regression coefficients have no significant changes in the direction and size in robustness test. The results showed that urbanization has a significant effect on output of regional tourism economy; urbanization also has benefit to promote increasing the number of tourists. We get the conclusions. First, the regression coefficient of urbanization (population urbanization, economy urbanization and environment urbanization) influencing regional tourism economy pass significance test at 0.01 level. It shows that urbanization plays a significant role in promoting regional tourism economic output. Second, the regression coefficient of urbanization (population urbanization, economy urbanization and environment urbanization) influencing regional tourist arrivals pass significance test at 0.01 level. It shows that urbanization also helps to promote increasing regional tourist arrivals. The government departments should make full use of urbanization to promote regional tourism economy development, overcome the constraints of space and environment in the development of tourism. Moreover, infrastructure construction is an important measure of urbanization and regional tourism economy development we should optimize the employment structure of the population to creat more space and potentiality for regional tourism economy development, and ultimately to realize fast, effective and sustainable development of regional tourism economy.