In China, local governments play a very important role in the development of the tourism industry. Local governments appear to have a positive effect on the development of tourism because of the fact that the tourism industry output has improved for more than a decade. Many researchers have studied the relationship between government and tourism development. However, the existing studies were limited to qualitative discussion and there is still no relatively scientific quantitative analysis which can prove whether the impact is positive or not. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to verify whether the impacts of Chinese local government act on the tourism industry are positive or negative from the perspective of efficiency. To achieve this aim, this paper binned a quantitative model of local government act, data envelopment analysis and spatial statistics together in a creative way, measured tourism industry efficiency with and without the influence of local government act and compared the changes in results and their spatial patterns and spatial interactions. On the basis of these analyses, the author found that positive impacts as a result of the local government act on efficiency in the tourism industry do exist.
Keywords: tourism efficiency, local government act, impacts, China
China Finance and Economic Review
Volume 8 Number 2 Summer 2019.P90