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Tourism resources and human capital have an important impact on regional sustainable development. Based on the resource curse theory, this paper combines the characteristics of the industry to analyze in depth the role of tourism resources on the level of human capital and the mechanism of influence. The results show that tourism resource endowment significantly relates to regional human capital in an inverted U-shaped. The mediating effect analysis suggests that industrial structure mediates the relationship. The heterogeneity test indicates this relationship is evident only in the eastern regions. This research expands the application scope of the resource curse theory and the three-step test method. It helps understand how tourism resources affect human capital through industrial structure and offers suggestions for sustainable tourism development and regional economic growth in China.
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International Journal of Tourism Research promotes and enhances research developments in the field of tourism. The journal provides an international platform for debate and dissemination of research findings whilst also facilitating the discussion of new research areas and techniques. IJTR continues to add a vibrant and exciting channel for those interested in tourism and hospitality research developments. The scope of the journal is international and welcomes research that makes original contributions to theories and methodologies. It continues to publish high quality research papers in any area of tourism, including empirical papers on tourism issues. The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism, such as economics, marketing, sociology and statistics. All papers are subject to strict double-blind (or triple-blind) peer review by the international research community.
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