Can Tourism Development Make Cities More Livable? Investigating 40 Cities in China

Abstract

The field of rapid urbanization has recently paid more attention to the relationship between tourism development and liveable city construction. Previous studies have mainly focused on the experiences of tourists in tourist cities and seldom paid attention to the perceptions of local residents. Based on survey data of nearly 10,000 permanent residents in 40 key tourist cities in China, this study uses a multilevel model to quantitatively analyse the natural environment characteristics, sociocultural environment characteristics and comprehensive attraction of tourism in different tourist cities to explore their impact on urban liveability satisfaction. Results show that the developed tourist cities do not exactly correspond to the cities with a high liveability evaluation. The objective evaluation of both the natural environment and the sociocultural environment has an important influence on the liveability of cities, but the influence of the natural environment is stronger than that of the sociocultural environment. An intermediary effect exists in the subjective evaluation of the natural environment and environments for liveability perception. Simultaneously, residents’ liveability satisfaction varies according to their age, education level, annual household income and other social and economic conditions. These findings provide insights for developing countries to further improve residents’ living quality and urban construction under the condition of the rapid development of tourism.

Evaluation and Application of Public Management Service Quality of Smart City Based on Intelligent Computing

“…Due to diferent research emphases, domestic and foreign scholars have diferent interpretations of the concept of a smart city [24,25]. Foreign scholars have studied the evaluation of smart cities earlier, dating back to the 1950s.…”

Can Tourism Development Help Improve Urban Liveability? An Examination of the Chinese Case

“…The findings show that the effect of tourism development on urban liveability is an inverted U-shaped curve, and tourism density, which serves as a threshold variable, plays a moderating role in it. In addition, Kang et al [29] probed into the question of whether cities with high tourism development levels are also liveable, and the results confirm that there is no spatially matching relation. To date, scholars have focused more on the issues that are related to tourism in urban development.…”

Study on coupling coordination of the human settlement environment and tourism industry in the yellow river basin

“…Their interactions have different coupling coordination conditions. The current mainstream research views hold that the mutual promotion between the human settlement environment and the tourism industry is significant for high-quality development (Liu et al, 2017;Kang et al, 2022). Furthermore, from the perspective of the level of comprehensive development of the two systems, the development trend of the human settlement environment system and the tourism industry system in the nine provinces of the Yellow River Basin tends to be the same, with a fluctuating upward trend, which is consistent with the conclusions of existing research (Hao et al, 2021;Khalid and Kot, 2021;Huang et al, 2022).…”

“…On the other hand, tourism, as a sunrise industry with a good promoting coefficient and low consumption of resources, serves as an essential carrier for improving production, living, and the ecological environment. This helps boost the improvement of the human settlement environment (Kang et al, 2022).…”