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| Title | Smart City Construction Impact On Destination Competitiveness: A Time-Varying Difference-In-Differences Analysis Of Chinese Prefectural-Level Cities |
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| ID_Doc | 50134 |
| Authors | Zhang J. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Published | Tourism Review, 80, 4 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/TR-05-2024-0432 |
| Abstract | Purpose: This paper aims to analyze how smart city construction affects destination competitiveness and elucidates the potential mechanisms of digital economy. Also, the regional heterogeneity of smart city construction’s influence on destination competitiveness is discussed. Design/methodology/approach: Given the quasi-natural experiment characteristics of China's smart city construction pilot, this study applies a time-varying difference-in-differences approach using a panel dataset of 272 Chinese prefectural-level cities to examine the causal effects of smart city construction on destination competitiveness. Findings: Results indicate substantial enhancement of urban destination competitiveness from smart city construction, with this effect escalating annually. Digital infrastructure and digital finance serve as influence mechanisms. The positive impacts of smart city construction on urban tourism competitiveness do not differ by geographic location, rather there are significant differences between cities of different administrative levels. The impact of smart city construction on destination competitiveness is more significant in low administrative level cities. The improvement of economic development level and innovation ability helps to exert the positive impact of smart cities on tourism competitiveness. Originality/value: This study constructs a new panel data set for smart city construction and destination competitiveness based on multi-source data and posits a theoretical linkage among smart city construction, digital economy and destination competitiveness. This paper provides invaluable insights on how to boost destination competitiveness by creating smart cities and leveraging the digital economy. Tourism sectors should proactively engage in smart city construction and foster the digital transformation of tourism. © 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited. |
| Author Keywords | Destination competitiveness; Difference-in-differences model; Digital economy; Digital innovation; Smart city construction |
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