Research on the Coupling and Coordination of China’s Tourism Economy and Internet Development

Abstract

Taking China's 30 provincial units as the research target and constructing an evaluation index system of tourism economy and Internet development, we use the coupling coordination model to measure the degree of coupling and coordination between China's tourism economy and Internet development from 2007 to 2017, and to explore its temporal and spatial evolution features and laws. The results show: First, the development level of the national tourism economy is far ahead of the development level of Internet; Second, for a long time, except for Jilin and Ningxia, there has been a high level of coupling between the tourism economy and the development of Internet in other provinces in China; Third, the level of coupling coordination between China's tourism economy and the development of Internet is mainly in the barely coordinated or primary coordinated stage, and over time, the proportion of provinces that transition from imbalance to the coordinated stage has increased, but the degree of coordinated development between the two is still relatively low.