Research on the Economic Effects of Regional Inbound Tourism Based on Internet Diffusion

摘要

Using the Internet to transform the tourism model and enhance the ability and experience of online travel service is an important measure to develop the Intelligent Tourism in many places. For empirical analysis, a panel data model was set up based on the relationship between Internet resources such as Internet users, domain names, websites and regional inbound tourism revenue in China's 31 provinces in 2003-2015. The result shows that the Internet plays a positive role in promoting China's inbound tourism economy; Internet users penetration rate and the increase in the number of sites are relatively significant on China's inbound tourism economic development; an obvious regional difference was appeared by the impact of Internet on regional inbound tourism economy; And the lag effect model shows that the Internet lag effect on inbound tourism economy reaches the maximum in the 4th year.