| Regional integration is becoming an important requirement of regional development while the spatial correlation of regional economic growth trends to more and more relevant as the development of the economy. As one part of the economy system, tourism economy also committed to promoting its integration. Is there any correlation between the provinces or not? In order to solve this problem, we need to study the spatial correlation of regional tourism economic growth. Thus we can promote the regional tourism integration.The paper estimates the spatial correlation of regional tourism economic growth of the 31 provinces of China from 1995 to 2014 by using VAR Granger causality. Then we depicts individual and overall characteristics of the spatial correlation of regional tourism economic growth. The results show that:(1) The spatial correlation of regional tourism economic growth is ubiquitous and there exist 275 spatial correlation relationships between provinces, which there exist at least one relationship of each province.(2) The spatial correlation relationships of regional tourism economic growth have obvious gradient feature both from the aspect of beneficial relationship and spill relationship.Specifically the east region is significant than the middle region while the middle region is significant than the west region.(3) Overall Guangdong,Jiangsu have strong gathering and diffusion function. But the network centralization index and of betweeness and closeness are not high which infer that the regional integration need to be promoted.(4) The spatial correlation relationships of regional tourism economic growth are not close enough with the network density of 0.306. On the other hand, the spatial correlation is stable and multiple with the connectedness of 1 and the network efficiency of 0.623.(5) The regional tourism economic growth in China can be divided into 4 plates. The first called bidirectional spillover plate which composed of the eastern coastal developed provinces. The second pate is agent plate, including the regions with higher economic activity of eastern and middle region as well as some province with highly developed tourism industry such as Yunnan. The third one is main beneficial plate while the next one is the net beneficial plate, which composed of middle and western regions which developed faster and the less developed provinces in the western region respectively.(6) Each plate plays different role in the process of tourism economic growth. The first plate is the engine while the second is the bridge. It also worthy to note that there is a mutual spillover between the second plate and the third plate. |
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