Does rural sports tourism promote the sustainable development of the destination? -- Based on quasi-experimental evidence of sports and leisure towns in China

IF 9.7 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL

Journal of Cleaner Production Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144537

Maoteng Cheng , Lu Zhang , Xinying Zhang , Ying Li

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Abstract

Sustainable development is an important tool to realize the sound economic, social, and ecological operation of the destination, and rural sports tourism is an important way to realize the sustainable development of the destination by relying on its own industrial advantages. This paper systematically explains the causal relationship between rural sports tourism and destination sustainable development by constructing a "Driving Force-State-Response" model (DSR). Based on the panel data of 290 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2022, this paper adopts the quasi-natural experiment of "sports and leisure characteristic towns in China" (SLT) to construct a difference-in-differences model and empirically evaluate the mechanism of rural sports tourism and sustainable development of destinations. The results show that: (1) the development of rural sports tourism is conducive to promoting the overall sustainable development of the destination, and the effect is more significant in the western and eastern regions. This conclusion is still valid after a series of robustness tests; (2) Mechanism analysis found that rural sports tourism promoted the optimization of industrial structure, residents' values, infrastructure construction, and grassroots governance efficiency, and thus promoted the sustainable development of destinations. Finally, other areas of concern for future rural sports tourism research are proposed.

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乡村体育旅游是否促进了目的地的可持续发展？——基于中国体育休闲小镇的准实验证据

可持续发展是实现目的地经济、社会、生态良性运行的重要工具，乡村体育旅游是依托目的地自身产业优势实现目的地可持续发展的重要途径。本文通过构建“驱动力-状态-响应”模型，系统地解释了乡村体育旅游与目的地可持续发展的因果关系。本文基于2011 - 2022年中国290个地级市的面板数据，采用“中国体育休闲特色小镇”（SLT）的准自然实验，构建差异中的差异模型，实证评价乡村体育旅游与目的地可持续发展的机制。研究结果表明：(1)发展乡村体育旅游有利于促进目的地整体可持续发展，且在西部和东部地区效果更为显著。经过一系列稳健性检验，该结论仍然有效；(2)机制分析发现，乡村体育旅游促进了产业结构、居民价值、基础设施建设和基层治理效率的优化，从而促进了目的地的可持续发展。最后，提出了未来乡村体育旅游研究的其他关注领域。

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Journal of Cleaner Production 环境科学-工程：环境

CiteScore

20.40

自引率

9.00%

发文量

4720

审稿时长

111 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Cleaner Production is an international, transdisciplinary journal that addresses and discusses theoretical and practical Cleaner Production, Environmental, and Sustainability issues. It aims to help societies become more sustainable by focusing on the concept of 'Cleaner Production', which aims at preventing waste production and increasing efficiencies in energy, water, resources, and human capital use. The journal serves as a platform for corporations, governments, education institutions, regions, and societies to engage in discussions and research related to Cleaner Production, environmental, and sustainability practices.