Power Mechanism and Path of Deep Integration of Cultural Industry and Tourism Industry in the Era of Digital Economy
Online veröffentlicht: 21. März 2025
Eingereicht: 07. Nov. 2024
Akzeptiert: 12. Feb. 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2025-0576
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With the rapid development of economic globalization and high technology, different industries or different industries within the same industry are intersecting and penetrating each other, and eventually become one, thus forming new industrial attributes or new industrial forms, and scholars refer to this phenomenon as industrial integration [1-2].
After the reform and opening up, China’s tourism industry has developed rapidly and gradually become one of the country’s pillar industries. While the tourism industry is thriving, the cultural industry is also getting more and more attention, and the state realizes that the integration of the two will have a significant positive effect on China’s economy, so they have been located in the country’s strategic pillar industries [3-4]. As an important part of the tertiary industry, tourism involves six aspects: food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment, which can to a large extent stimulate China’s national economy and promote people’s consumption, especially important in the post epidemic era [5-7]. Since tourism is a typical consumer-aggregating industry, it has a strong market consumption ability, and can provide many jobs for the local community, thus solving employment to a certain extent. In addition, the integration of culture and tourism can enhance the material and spiritual affluence of the people, narrow the gap between the material and spiritual life of the people, and improve the sustainability of the integration of culture and tourism to promote common prosperity [8-10]. The integration of culture industry and tourism industry is one of the major trends in the development of the world today. As the development of culture and tourism integration continues to heat up, scholars have now initially formed a basic theoretical system of culture and tourism integration such as the relationship between Chinese and tourism industries, integration driving factors, integration mode, integration degree and integration industry [11]. The integration of culture and tourism industry will change the original industrial model, promote market expansion, and is an important way for enterprises to diversify their operations to obtain the scope of economic and synergistic effects, and to extend the life cycle of the industry.
Digital economy is an important engine to promote the construction of national comprehensive strength and modernized economic system, while culture and tourism are indispensable components in the development of digital economy. The integrated development of culture and tourism under the digital economy can promote the high-quality development of urban cultural industry and tourism, and empower the development of new creativity, new value and new brand in the city [12-13]. The expanding scale of the digital economy has promoted the digital transformation of cultural and tourism enterprises and boosted the high-quality development of digital cultural and tourism industry [14-15]. Digital cultural tourism industrialization is to expand the industrial volume through digital integration into the cultural tourism industry, use digital technology to promote the cultural tourism industry to the middle and high end of the value chain to climb, and give rise to new business forms of the cultural tourism industry [16]. With the increasing trend of cultural and tourism integration, promoting the high-quality development of cultural industry parks has become a powerful hand in innovating the economic development model and optimizing the spatial layout of cities. The integration of culture and tourism can boost the value-added, structural optimization and functional upgrading of rural elements through cultural reconstruction, tourism development and urban-rural interaction.
This paper firstly explains the power mechanism of the integration of cultural industry and tourism industry, i.e., cultural industry and tourism industry are highly interrelated, and their resources are interpenetrating and utilizing each other, and are deeply integrated and developed under the role of external factors such as market, technology and policy. Then, the evaluation index system for the comprehensive development level of the culture and tourism industries, as well as the coupling coordinated development model based on the coupling coordination degree and relative development degree, are constructed. And on the basis of analyzing the development level of China’s culture and tourism industry, 14 cities and states in Hunan Province are selected as the research objects to measure the comprehensive development level, coupling degree, and coupling coordination degree of culture industry and tourism industry in 2013-2022, and also to analyze the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of coupling coordination degree, on the basis of which to explore the possible paths for the deep integration and development of culture industry and tourism industry in the era of digital economy.
The high degree of correlation between the cultural industry and the tourism industry makes the resources between them interpenetrate and utilize each other, so the two industries have an interactive relationship of interdependence and mutual promotion in the process of development. This interactive relationship contributes to the natural coupling of culture and tourism industries, which in turn leads to the phenomenon of industrial integration. The power mechanism for the integrated development of the cultural industry and tourism industry is shown in Figure 1.

Dynamic mechanism of integrated development of cultural and tourism industry
Culture is the soul of tourism. Cultural industry provides support for the development of tourism industry and enriches the connotation and extension of tourism industry. The cultural industry contains a large number of tourism resources, which are sustainable under the premise of reasonable protection. Incorporating a large number of cultural elements into tourism product development is of great significance in enhancing the attractiveness of tourist destinations and the competitiveness of tourism, and it also provides cultural added value and greater profit margins for the tourism industry.
The tourism industry is a platform and carrier for the development of the cultural industry, and the promotion effect of the tourism industry on the cultural industry is mainly reflected in the following two effects:
Market effect. The development of tourism industry brings a large number of tourists to the destination, and these tourists not only bring the local tourism revenue, but also promote the growth of consumption of cultural products and cultural services. Publicity effect. The huge market of the tourism industry can provide a platform for cultural dissemination and exchange. Due to the cross-regional characteristics of the tourism industry, the unique history, culture, and folklore of tourist destinations are publicized through the tourism industry platform.
The highly interrelated industrial characteristics and multi-level industrial interaction between cultural industry and tourism industry are the basis for their integration, while external factors such as market, technology and policy also play a catalytic, guiding and accelerating role in the integrated development of cultural and tourism industry.
The pull of market demand has fueled the integration of the culture and tourism industry. With the development of the social economy and the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, people’s consumption demand for tourism continues to increase. The traditional tourism industry has a single form and fixed mode, which can not meet people’s consumption demand, and people are more inclined to choose high-quality tourism products with personalized, diversified, experiential and rich cultural connotation.
The interactive integration of cultural industry and tourism industry can realize the innovation of tourism mode, enrich the tourism products, and satisfy the new tourism consumption concept that people want to get spiritual and cultural enjoyment through travel. It can be said that the continuous growth of people’s consumption of tourism and the continuous improvement of the quality of tourism requirements has contributed to the transformation and upgrading of the tourism industry, and the integration and development of the culture and tourism industry is the inevitable result of the transformation and upgrading.
Science and technology are the primary sources of productivity. Technological progress is the catalyst for the integration of the culture and tourism industries, and technological means diversify the way of integration of the culture and tourism industries, which is an important driving force to promote the integration and development of the two industries. In the era of artificial intelligence, big data and 5G, technology has brought infinite possibilities to the integration of culture and tourism industry, smart scenic spots, smart hotels and digital management optimize the consumption experience of tourists, and the immersive experience brought by VR technology makes the culture and tourism products constantly innovative and upgraded. Meanwhile, the development of high-speed rail and other modern transportation technologies has enabled the development of more cultural and tourism resources on one hand, and expanded the source market on the other.
The guidance of government policies has a far-reaching impact on the integration of the culture and tourism industry. By formulating favorable industrial policies, increasing financial support and deregulating the cultural and tourism industry, the government and relevant departments can provide a favorable policy environment for the integration of the cultural and tourism industry.
Due to the wide range of industrial fields in the cultural and tourism industries, both of them have strong industrial correlation and innovativeness, which demonstrates the diversity of integration modes in the process of industrial integration. With reference to the existing studies, this paper classifies the integration mode into three major types: industry penetration type, industry extension type, and industry reorganization type.
Industry-permeable integration mode refers to based on the industry characteristics of strong permeability and high correlation of culture and tourism industry, under the promotion of modern science and technology innovation, the two industries penetrate into each other, so as to produce new products and form new business forms, which contributes to the integrated integration and development mode of culture and tourism industry. The industrial penetration integration mode is shown in Figure 2. According to the direction of industrial penetration, it can be divided into two types: culture to tourism industry penetration and integration type and tourism to culture industry penetration and integration type.
The cultural industry penetrates and integrates with the tourism industry. Under the modern technical support, cultural enterprises penetrate the cultural elements into the original traditional tourism product system through innovative expression methods and advanced production technology, breaking the original industrial boundaries, enriching the connotation of the value chain of culture and tourism industry, and realizing inter-industry interpenetration through the integration of channels and the integration of contents. On the one hand, tourist attractions, with the help of efficient multi-dimensional communication channels unique to the cultural industry, have realized the purpose of tourism promotion with wide dissemination surface and good dissemination effect, and increased the popularity of the attractions. On the other hand, the incorporation of cultural elements has given the tourism industry a unique cultural identity and contributed to the innovation of tourism products. Infiltration and integration of tourism industry to cultural industry. Through industrial penetration, the resources with market competitive advantages in the tourism industry are integrated into the development of cultural products, which endows the cultural and creative products with the function of tourism and enhances the attractiveness of the products.

Industry penetration fusion mode
The industry extension integration mode refers to the fact that, driven by interests, the culture and tourism industries realize functional complementarity and form a new integrated industrial system through the extension of each other’s industrial interaction chain. In this integration mode, the cultural industry plays the strongest extension role, and through the effective extension of the industrial chain, it transplants cultural resources and cultural products with strong attraction into the tourism industry, improves the quality of tourism products and services, and enhances the core competitiveness of the tourism industry.
Reorganization-type integration mode refers to breaking the boundaries of culture industry and tourism industry under the guidance of market demand, constituting a new industry chain through reorganization of their independent products and services, and thus realizing the integration and innovative development of culture and tourism products and services. In the process of this integration mode, market demand is the guide and product innovation is the core driving force, so it will promote the birth of new business operation modes. For example, through the reorganization of cultural industries such as convention and exhibition, music and festival and tourism industry, new cultural tourism business forms such as convention and exhibition tourism, music tourism and festival tourism can be formed. These new business models are highly competitive and commercially valuable, and can play a powerful role in driving local economic development.
In order to realize the in-depth integration of cultural industry and tourism industry in the era of digital economy, this paper constructs an index system to quantitatively assess the development level of culture and tourism industry, and proposes a measurement model of tourism-culture-economy coupling synergy, to explore the level of its coupling synergistic development, in order to put forward the relevant path suggestions.
In this paper, by combining the relevant research results of literature review as a theoretical support, take China as an example to understand the status quo of its industrial development through research, and construct a comprehensive evaluation index system of the development level of the tourism industry, which mainly includes three indexes of the performance of the tourism industry, elements of the tourism industry, and the security of the tourism industry.
Similarly, similar to the construction of tourism industry, combining with the actual situation of cultural industry, analyzing the relevant research results of cultural industry in Hunan Province, according to the five principles of the construction of the above index system, carefully analyzing the indicators, this study from the cultural industry performance indicators, elements indicators, security indicators in three aspects of combing, and finally build the evaluation index system of cultural industry.
Data standardization Indicator system exists in the difference indicators, respectively, represent the differentiated scale and units, so in the study there is a standardized transformation, that is, into relative quantities. The analysis in this paper to do the polarization with dimensionless, but also to study a method, specifically, the variable value and its minimum value is subtracted, after being divided by the maximum variable value and the minimum variable value subtracted from the value of the value. I.e.:
Eq. (1) where Principal component analysis method to determine the weights Coupling degree model analysis to do weight determination for each system’s indicators. Therefore become the primary criterion of the analysis method, this analysis is to determine the weights through the principal component analysis method, the first point is to standardize the data analysis to achieve the variance maximization rotation [17]. The second point determines the score of each principal factor and the contribution of the equation. The principal components can be expressed as:
Eq. (2) where
Finally, the weight of indicator
where
Comprehensive evaluation function of cultural industries:
In equation (4), The comprehensive evaluation function of tourism industry:
In equation (5),
Coupling is a phenomenon in which two or more systems, in the process of development, are interrelated and interact with each other under the action of internal and external factors such as industry, technology and resources. When this kind of correlation and influence promotes the development of the system, the coupling at this time belongs to the benign coupling. When this mutual influence, interaction manifested as an obstacle to the development of the system and system elements, called bad coupling. The coupling degree is used to specifically quantify the interaction trend between systems or between system elements [18]. In this paper, based on the coupling theory, the cultural industry and tourism industry are treated as two independent and interacting systems, and two mathematical models are used to quantitatively analyze the influence between the two systems and system elements, and the two models are the coupling degree and the coupling coordination degree, respectively.
The coupling degree model of multiple systems is as follows:
From equation (3), the binary coupling degree model of cultural industry and tourism industry is as follows:
Where
The value of coupling degree C can reflect the coupling level of the two systems of tourism and culture, but it is impossible to accurately judge the degree of coordination between the two systems. There are two possibilities when the value of coupling degree C is very large: firstly, in the early stage of development, the coupling degree shows a high value due to the fact that the two systems of tourism and culture are at a low level of development. The second is a high coupling at a later stage of development due to the fact that both tourism and culture have reached a high level of development. In order to distinguish between the different coupling situations, a coupling coordination model [19] is introduced as follows:
Where
According to the above model, the coupling coordination degree D of tourism and culture is calculated, and based on the research of related scholars, the coupling coordination degree is graded, and the stage of the development of the tourism-culture system is judged and analyzed.
When the coupling coordination degree
In summary, the coupling coordination degree
In order to reflect the relative change relationship of the elements in the system in a certain period of time, the relative development degree model is used to calculate the relative development degree of the cultural industry and the tourism industry
Where
Cultural industry and tourism industry coupling coordinated development level type
Coupling coordination degree | Coupling coordinated development type | Relative development degree | Relative development type | Numbering |
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[0,0.3) | Extreme imbalance | (0,0.8) | Cultural industry lagging type | T1 |
[0.8,1.2) | Synchronous development type | T2 | ||
[1.2,∞) | Tourism industry lagging type | T3 | ||
[0.3,0.5) | Mild imbalance | (0,0.8) | Cultural industry lagging type | T4 |
[0.8,1.2) | Synchronous development type | T5 | ||
[1.2,∞) | Tourism industry lagging type | T6 | ||
[0.5,0.8) | Primary coordination | (0,0.8) | Cultural industry lagging type | T7 |
[0.8,1.2) | Synchronous development type | T8 | ||
[1.2,∞) | Tourism industry lagging type | T9 | ||
[0.8,1] | Highly coordinated | (0,0.8) | Cultural industry lagging type | T10 |
[0.8,1.2) | Synchronous development type | T11 | ||
[1.2,∞) | Tourism industry lagging type | T12 |
This paper takes the integrated development of culture industry and tourism industry in China as an example, calculates to get the index of comprehensive development level of culture industry, the index of comprehensive development level of tourism industry, and the degree of coupling and coordination of culture industry and tourism industry, which represent the level of comprehensive development of culture industry, the level of comprehensive development of tourism industry, the level of integrated development of culture industry and tourism industry, and analyzes the results of the measurements in combination with the existing classification standards.
After determining the weights of the indicators using principal component analysis, the comprehensive index of the development level of China’s cultural industry is calculated by combining equation (4), and the time-series evolution of the development level of China’s cultural industry is analyzed. The development level of cultural industry in some regions of China is calculated as shown in Table 2.
The level of cultural industry development in some regions of China
Range | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Guangdong | 0.4713 | 0.4984 | 0.5339 | 0.5495 | 0.6108 | 0.6472 | 0.7022 | 0.7270 |
Jiangsu | 0.3756 | 0.3910 | 0.4298 | 0.5246 | 0.5780 | 0.5956 | 0.5418 | 0.5369 |
Shandong | 0.3135 | 0.3333 | 0.3748 | 0.4058 | 0.4545 | 0.4885 | 0.4555 | 0.4496 |
Zhejiang | 0.2772 | 0.2905 | 0.3112 | 0.386 | 0.4318 | 0.4662 | 0.5174 | 0.5615 |
Shanghai | 0.3168 | 0.2891 | 0.3342 | 0.3681 | 0.3537 | 0.3699 | 0.3592 | 0.3005 |
Sichuan | 0.2771 | 0.2798 | 0.3082 | 0.3306 | 0.3364 | 0.3603 | 0.3625 | 0.3790 |
Beijing | 0.1649 | 0.1985 | 0.2252 | 0.2263 | 0.2413 | 0.2886 | 0.3460 | 0.3805 |
National average | 0.1579 | 0.1631 | 0.1792 | 0.1923 | 0.2022 | 0.2218 | 0.2241 | 0.2335 |
Qinghai | 0.0256 | 0.0236 | 0.0328 | 0.0291 | 0.0305 | 0.0238 | 0.0333 | 0.0430 |
Ningxia | 0.0302 | 0.0291 | 0.0254 | 0.0223 | 0.0214 | 0.0405 | 0.0375 | 0.0379 |
Hainan | 0.0226 | 0.0278 | 0.0319 | 0.0216 | 0.0256 | 0.024 | 0.0253 | 0.0354 |
From 2015 to 2022, the overall development of China’s cultural industry shows an upward trend. In terms of the development level, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Sichuan and Beijing have better industrial development, and the comprehensive development index of the cultural industry is higher overall, with the average value of the development water in the past years being 0.5925, 0.4967, 0.4094, 0.4052, 0.3364, 0.3292 and 0.2589, respectively, and the industry development index of Guangdong province even reached 0.72 in 2022 reached 0.7270, which is 1.5425 times the index in 2015, becoming the highest value of the cultural industry development level in all provinces in all years. This is mainly because of the higher level of economic development in these regions, the infrastructure of the cultural industry is more perfect, the income level of the people is also in the leading position compared with other provinces, with more cultural consumption capacity, and the combination of these factors has realized the good development of the cultural industry. On the other hand, the development level of cultural industry in Qinghai, Ningxia, Hainan and other regions is low, and the comprehensive development index of cultural industry is below 0.05, which is far lower than the national average level.
China’s overall cultural industry development level is shown in Figure 3. Looking at the development growth rate at the national level, from 2015 to 2022, the development level of China’s cultural industry increased year by year, showing a stable growth trend, and the average value of the national index of the development level of the cultural industry rose from 0.1579 in 2015 to 0.2335 in 2022.

The development level of Chinese cultural industry
Meanwhile, the comparison shows that there are differences in the growth rate of cultural industry development in different provinces.From 2015 to 2022, there are four regions with the growth rate of cultural industry development exceeding 100%, which are Beijing (130.75%), Zhejiang Province (102.56%), Tibet Autonomous Region (106.43%), and Fujian Province (104.25%). The cultural industry development index of Liaoning Province fluctuates little, with the value at [0.13, 0.17] in all years. Meanwhile, the industry development level in most regions increased year by year during 2015-2022, while Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong showed a trend of change, first increasing then decreasing. Among them, Shandong Province, as the birthplace of Qilu culture with deep cultural heritage, has a comprehensive index of industry development that rises from 0.3135 in 2015 to 0.4885 in 2020, and then declines year by year to 0.4496 in 2022, which suggests that the cultural industry in some provinces in China may be facing a bottleneck in its development, and it needs to look for new breakthroughs in its development.
On the basis of determining the weights of the indicators, the comprehensive index of the development level of China’s tourism industry is calculated by combining equation (5), and the time-series evolution of the development level of China’s tourism industry is analyzed. The development level of China’s tourism industry in certain regions is shown in Table 3.
The level of tourism industry development in some regions of China
Range | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Guangdong | 0.5920 | 0.6083 | 0.6475 | 0.6659 | 0.6520 | 0.6837 | 0.6878 | 0.7291 |
Shandong | 0.3327 | 0.3290 | 0.3877 | 0.4132 | 0.4318 | 0.4689 | 0.4955 | 0.4756 |
Zhejiang | 0.3712 | 0.3838 | 0.4032 | 0.3805 | 0.3668 | 0.4222 | 0.3991 | 0.4756 |
Jiangsu | 0.3529 | 0.3511 | 0.3890 | 0.3909 | 0.4251 | 0.4293 | 0.4328 | 0.4629 |
Beijing | 0.3282 | 0.3354 | 0.3352 | 0.3433 | 0.3230 | 0.3370 | 0.3738 | 0.3851 |
Shanghai | 0.2545 | 0.2535 | 0.2583 | 0.2648 | 0.2857 | 0.2987 | 0.3129 | 0.3073 |
Hunan | 0.1893 | 0.1790 | 0.2600 | 0.2712 | 0.2945 | 0.2756 | 0.2852 | 0.3477 |
National average | 0.1627 | 0.1682 | 0.1828 | 0.2016 | 0.2025 | 0.2231 | 0.2490 | 0.2583 |
Qinghai | 0.0213 | 0.0242 | 0.0391 | 0.0359 | 0.0331 | 0.0504 | 0.0456 | 0.0556 |
Ningxia | 0.0100 | 0.0261 | 0.0127 | 0.0181 | 0.0284 | 0.0222 | 0.0187 | 0.0227 |
Xizang | 0.0146 | 0.0144 | 0.0161 | 0.0245 | 0.0311 | 0.0399 | 0.0504 | 0.0370 |
As shown in Table 3, China’s tourism industry develops faster from 2015 to 2022. In terms of the development level, Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Beijing, Shanghai, Hunan and other regions have obvious advantages in the development of the tourism industry, and the average value of the development water in the past years is 0.6583, 0.4168, 0.4003, 0.4043, 0.3451, 0.2795, 0.2628, which is more than the national average, and the tourism resources in these regions are rich, the tourism infrastructure is more perfect, the tourism market is larger, the domestic and international popularity is higher, and the tourism industry is better developed. In contrast, although Qinghai, Ningxia, Tibet and other regions have beautiful scenery, the transportation is inconvenient, the tourism service facilities need to be perfected, and the systematization and specialization of the tourism industry development need to be improved, so the comprehensive development level of the tourism industry is relatively low, and the comprehensive development evaluation values of their industry development are all lower than 0.06, much lower than the national average level.
The development level of China’s tourism industry is shown in Figure 4. Looking at the development growth rate at the national level, from 2015 to 2022, the development level of China’s tourism industry continued to grow, and the average value of the national tourism industry development level index rose from 0.1627 in 2015 to 0.2583 in 2022, with a development growth rate of 58.76%.

The development level of tourism industry
In addition, by comparing the index of tourism industry development level in different regions, it can be seen that there is a difference in the growth rate of tourism industry development in different provinces.From 2015 to 2022, there are 6 regions with more than 100% growth rate of tourism industry development, which are Guizhou Province (196.83%), Yunnan Province (145.38%), Sichuan Province (136.71%), Qinghai Province (161.03%), Guangxi (132.26%) and Jiangxi (122.54%). Among these six provinces, some provinces such as Qinghai Province, which have a lower level of tourism development but huge potential and higher value of tourism resources, have realized a large increase in tourism industry development under the joint action of the government and the market.
In order to further explore the development level of integration between cultural industry and tourism industry in China, this paper analyzes the level of integration by taking 14 cities and states in China’s Hunan Province as examples.
According to the coupling degree model formula (7), the coupling degree of the cultural and tourism industries of 14 cities and states in Hunan Province from 2013 to 2022 is calculated as shown in Table 4.
The coupling degree of cultural industry and tourism industry
Year | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Region | ||||||||||
Changsha | 1.000 | 0.994 | 1.000 | 0.999 | 1.002 | 0.999 | 0.997 | 0.993 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
Zhuzhou | 0.991 | 1.000 | 0.999 | 0.962 | 0.996 | 0.990 | 0.978 | 0.977 | 0.965 | 0.956 |
Xiangtan | 0.992 | 1.000 | 0.963 | 0.952 | 0.96 | 0.988 | 0.953 | 0.978 | 0.989 | 0.985 |
Hengyang | 0.963 | 0.992 | 0.971 | 0.948 | 0.982 | 0.985 | 0.966 | 0.973 | 0.966 | 0.935 |
Shaoyang | 0.974 | 0.986 | 0.982 | 0.993 | 0.977 | 0.990 | 0.992 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.994 |
Yueyang | 0.978 | 0.998 | 0.992 | 0.999 | 1.000 | 0.999 | 0.984 | 0.992 | 0.992 | 0.993 |
Changde | 0.955 | 0.998 | 0.985 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.998 | 0.967 | 1.000 | 0.994 | 0.998 |
Zhangjiajie | 0.957 | 0.860 | 0.860 | 0.576 | 0.653 | 0.597 | 0.589 | 0.750 | 0.645 | 0.714 |
Yiyang | 0.989 | 0.980 | 1.000 | 0.972 | 0.917 | 0.955 | 0.908 | 0.930 | 0.876 | 0.835 |
Chenzhou | 0.997 | 0.994 | 0.996 | 0.984 | 0.994 | 0.991 | 0.992 | 0.996 | 0.987 | 0.979 |
Yongzhou | 0.968 | 0.977 | 0.953 | 0.956 | 0.944 | 0.968 | 0.930 | 0.994 | 0.993 | 0.969 |
Huaihua | 0.946 | 0.978 | 0.955 | 0.976 | 0.991 | 0.986 | 0.947 | 0.953 | 0.902 | 0.904 |
Loudi | 0.942 | 0.726 | 0.942 | 0.974 | 0.989 | 0.99 | 0.969 | 0.908 | 0.960 | 0.955 |
Xiangxi Prefecture | 0.955 | 0.952 | 0.976 | 0.918 | 0.921 | 0.947 | 0.883 | 0.931 | 0.924 | 0.901 |
Mean value | 0.972 | 0.960 | 0.970 | 0.944 | 0.952 | 0.956 | 0.933 | 0.955 | 0.942 | 0.937 |
Through Table 4, it can be found that the level of coupling degree of 14 cities and states in Hunan Province is very high during the ten years, except for Zhangjiajie, the coupling degree of the rest of the cities and states is above 0.9, some even reach 1, and the average value of each year is also more than 0.9. This indicates that there is a close connection between the culture industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province. However, at the same time, this paper finds that the coupling degree cannot fully reflect the integration and development of the two industries between regions, for example, the comprehensive development level indexes of the culture industry and tourism industry in Zhuzhou City in 2013 were 0.197 and 9.214 respectively, while the coupling degree calculated on this basis was 0.991, while the comprehensive development level indexes of the culture and tourism industries in Hengyang City in 2013 were higher than those of Zhuzhou City The calculated coupling degree is 0.963, which is lower than Zhuzhou City, so it is extremely unreasonable and inconsistent with the reality that on the one hand, there is a low level of comprehensive development level index and a high level of coupling degree, while on the other hand, there is a situation in which the coupling degree of a city with a low level of development is relatively high. So on this basis, it is necessary to continue calculating the degree of coupling and coordination between the two industries.
Firstly, using formula (8), the value of the coupling coordination degree of culture and tourism industry in 14 cities and states in Hunan Province is calculated as shown in Table 5.
The coupling coordination degree of cultural industry and tourism industry
Year | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Region | ||||||||||
Changsha | 0.894 | 0.863 | 0.931 | 0.916 | 0.911 | 0.890 | 0.835 | 0.920 | 0.906 | 0.906 |
Zhuzhou | 0.396 | 0.381 | 0.426 | 0.483 | 0.483 | 0.464 | 0.457 | 0.470 | 0.460 | 0.447 |
Xiangtan | 0.385 | 0.362 | 0.377 | 0.375 | 0.386 | 0.382 | 0.380 | 0.390 | 0.404 | 0.365 |
Hengyang | 0.454 | 0.438 | 0.510 | 0.535 | 0.518 | 0.504 | 0.469 | 0.475 | 0.500 | 0.512 |
Shaoyang | 0.324 | 0.308 | 0.375 | 0.385 | 0.402 | 0.419 | 0.389 | 0.423 | 0.424 | 0.443 |
Yueyang | 0.442 | 0.421 | 0.493 | 0.505 | 0.526 | 0.561 | 0.554 | 0.506 | 0.533 | 0.498 |
Changde | 0.457 | 0.418 | 0.480 | 0.473 | 0.483 | 0.456 | 0.484 | 0.442 | 0.423 | 0.416 |
Zhangjiajie | 0.580 | 0.491 | 0.515 | 0.360 | 0.417 | 0.395 | 0.386 | 0.394 | 0.399 | 0.480 |
Yiyang | 0.365 | 0.338 | 0.372 | 0.405 | 0.392 | 0.388 | 0.354 | 0.350 | 0.363 | 0.353 |
Chenzhou | 0.442 | 0.417 | 0.466 | 0.493 | 0.526 | 0.554 | 0.494 | 0.501 | 0.512 | 0.520 |
Yongzhou | 0.338 | 0.319 | 0.344 | 0.344 | 0.368 | 0.361 | 0.361 | 0.381 | 0.400 | 0.430 |
Huaihua | 0.417 | 0.391 | 0.423 | 0.407 | 0.436 | 0.433 | 0.428 | 0.444 | 0.442 | 0.478 |
Loudi | 0.285 | 0.376 | 0.309 | 0.327 | 0.346 | 0.346 | 0.299 | 0.276 | 0.308 | 0.310 |
Xiangxi Prefecture | 0.381 | 0.383 | 0.413 | 0.472 | 0.450 | 0.435 | 0.434 | 0.474 | 0.447 | 0.445 |
Mean value | 0.440 | 0.422 | 0.460 | 0.463 | 0.475 | 0.471 | 0.452 | 0.460 | 0.466 | 0.472 |
Then, based on the mean value of the coupling coordination degree of Hunan Province in each year, the coordinated development of culture and tourism industry in Hunan Province during the decade was plotted as shown in Figure 5.

Mean value of coupling coordination degree
Then, combined with the evaluation index system of the development level of cultural industry and tourism industry, the corresponding coordinated development intervals of each city and state are derived, and in order to more clearly and intuitively show the changes in the time sequence, this paper intercepts the coupling coordination degree of 14 cities and states in Hunan Province in 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022, and organizes to get the coupling coordination degree level of these four time points as shown in Table 6 Shown. Extreme dysfunction, mild dysfunction, primary coordination and high coordination are represented by L1~L4, respectively.
Coupling coordination degree level
Year | 2013 | 2016 | 2019 | 2022 |
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Region | ||||
Changsha | L4 | L4 | L4 | L4 |
Zhuzhou | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Xiangtan | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Hengyang | L2 | L3 | L2 | L3 |
Shaoyang | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Yueyang | L2 | L3 | L3 | L2 |
Changde | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Zhangjiajie | L3 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Yiyang | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Chenzhou | L2 | L2 | L2 | L3 |
Yongzhou | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Huaihua | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Loudi | L1 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Xiangxi Prefecture | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
Combining Table 5 and Table 6, it can be found that:
In terms of time series, the value of the coupling coordination degree of the cultural industry and tourism industry in most cities in Hunan Province during the ten-year period has been steadily increasing, gradually moving from the disordered state of disorders to the transition stage, and its average value has been between 0.3-0.5, that is, in the transition stage from disorders to the orderly and coordinated development, and the level of coordination is not particularly high, and the overall trend, although showing growth, is more fluctuating. This indicates that in 2013-2022, the cultural industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province in the process of integration and development, there is a certain resistance, so that the level of integration and development of the two is sometimes high and sometimes low, and the stability is poor. However, with the development of the economy and society, the influence between the cultural industry and tourism industry deepens day by day, and some unstable factors gradually disappear. Therefore, from 2019 to 2022, the development trend of the integration of the two industries in Hunan Province is obviously more stable than in previous years, gradually transitioning to an orderly and coordinated development, and the quality and quantity of the integration has been improved. Analyzed spatially, the differences in the coupling coordination degree of culture industry and tourism industry among 14 cities and states in Hunan Province are very significant. Changsha City, due to the high level of development of both cultural and tourism industries, makes its coupling coordination degree is also much higher than other cities and states, has been in the stage of high coordination, while the other cities and states basically did not realize a higher level of coordination. Combined with Table 6, it is concluded that in 2013 Loudi City was in the lowest stage of coupling coordination development, i.e., the extreme dislocation stage, Zhangjiajie City was in the primary coordination stage, and the other cities were in the mild dislocation stage. The number of cities in the primary coordination stage rose to two in 2016 (Hengyang and Yueyang), with no cities in the extreme dislocation stage.The overall level of coordination declined in 2019, with Hengyang city dropping from the primary coordination stage to mild dislocation, and the other cities remaining in the same stage. In 2022, most of the cities are at the mild dislocation stage, with Changsha remaining highly coordinated and Hengyang and Chenzhou developing to the primary coordination stage.
To summarize, the integrated development level of culture and tourism industry in most cities has improved in the past ten years, thanks to the introduction of relevant national policies and the improvement of people’s income and consumption level. Based on the improvement of the external environment and consumer demand, the coordinated development of the cultural industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province has been improving, but most cities have not realized the coordinated development, and the development difference between regions tends to narrow, but there are still significant gaps, Changsha City is far ahead of the development of other cities and states has not been significantly changed.
Based on the analysis of the coupling coordination degree, according to the model formula (9) of the relative development degree, the relative development index of the cultural industry relative to the tourism industry in 14 cities and states in Hunan Province from 2013 to 2022 is calculated, while four time nodes, namely 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022, are still selected to obtain the development of the cultural industry in Changsha and other 14 cities and states relative to the tourism industry and the development of the industry and the location of the type as shown in Table 7. Where D indicates the degree of coupling coordination and E indicates the degree of relative development. Meanwhile, the development of cultural industry relative to tourism industry in Hunan Province can be divided into three states (hereinafter referred to as cultural lagging state, synchronized state, and tourism lagging state) in which the development of cultural industry lags behind tourism industry, the development of cultural industry is synchronized with that of tourism industry, and the development of tourism industry lags behind cultural industry, respectively, with.
Cultural industry and tourism industry coordinated development type
City and State | 2013 | 2016 | 2019 | 2022 | ||||||||
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D | E | Type | D | E | Type | D | E | Type | D | E | Type | |
Changsha | 0.89 | 1.02 | T11 | 0.92 | 0.97 | T11 | 0.84 | 1.17 | T11 | 0.91 | 1.04 | T11 |
Zhuzhou | 0.40 | 1.42 | T6 | 0.48 | 1.7 | T6 | 0.46 | 1.59 | T6 | 0.45 | 1.78 | T6 |
Xiangtan | 0.39 | 1.19 | T5 | 0.38 | 1.87 | T6 | 0.38 | 1.71 | T6 | 0.37 | 1.52 | T6 |
Hengyang | 0.45 | 1.72 | T6 | 0.54 | 1.91 | T9 | 0.47 | 1.61 | T6 | 0.51 | 2.17 | T9 |
Shaoyang | 0.32 | 1.74 | T6 | 0.39 | 1.35 | T6 | 0.39 | 1.36 | T6 | 0.44 | 0.91 | T5 |
Yueyang | 0.44 | 1.49 | T6 | 0.51 | 0.86 | T8 | 0.55 | 1.43 | T9 | 0.50 | 1.17 | T8 |
Changde | 0.46 | 1.78 | T6 | 0.47 | 0.95 | T5 | 0.48 | 0.64 | T4 | 0.42 | 1.09 | T5 |
Zhangjiajie | 0.58 | 0.53 | T7 | 0.36 | 0.08 | T4 | 0.39 | 0.08 | T4 | 0.48 | 0.17 | T4 |
Yiyang | 0.37 | 0.86 | T5 | 0.41 | 1.6 | T6 | 0.35 | 2.31 | T6 | 0.35 | 3.33 | T6 |
Chenzhou | 0.44 | 1.02 | T5 | 0.49 | 0.79 | T4 | 0.49 | 0.83 | T5 | 0.52 | 0.7 | T7 |
Yongzhou | 0.34 | 1.55 | T6 | 0.34 | 1.82 | T6 | 0.36 | 2.27 | T6 | 0.43 | 1.52 | T6 |
Huaihua | 0.42 | 1.94 | T6 | 0.41 | 1.62 | T6 | 0.43 | 1.97 | T6 | 0.48 | 2.51 | T6 |
Loudi | 0.29 | 2.01 | T3 | 0.33 | 1.54 | T6 | 0.30 | 1.6 | T6 | 0.31 | 1.92 | T6 |
Xiangxi Prefecture | 0.38 | 1.78 | T6 | 0.47 | 2.25 | T6 | 0.43 | 2.77 | T6 | 0.45 | 2.51 | T6 |
Analyzing Table 7, it is found that there are more cities in Hunan province that are in lagging development of tourism industry.In 2013, only Zhangjiajie is in cultural lagging development, Changsha, Xiangtan, Yiyang and Chenzhou are in synchronous development, and the other municipalities are in tourism lagging development.In 2016, Chenzhou and Zhangjiajie are in cultural lagging development, and except for Changsha, Yueyang and Changde are also in synchronous development, and the other municipalities are in Tourism lagging development.In 2019, Changde and Zhangjiajie are in cultural lagging development, Changsha and Chenzhou are in synchronized development, and the other ten cities and states are in tourism lagging development.In 2022, Zhangjiajie and Chenzhou are in cultural lagging development, and Changsha, Shaoyang, Yueyang, and Changde have achieved synchronized development, while the other cities are still in tourism lagging development.
Synthesizing the years 2013-2022, it can be found that during the ten-year period, except for Changsha City, which has been in synchronous development, Zhangjiajie, which has been in cultural lagging development, and Yongzhou, Huaihua, Loudi, and Xiangxi Prefecture, which have been in tourism lagging development, the development of other cities has been poorly stabilized. Therefore, how to ensure the coordinated development of the situation, so that the degree of synchronized development of the culture and tourism industry in Hunan Province is achieved, cities and states need to think carefully.
Combining the analysis of coupling coordination degree and relative development degree, it can be seen that the development of culture and tourism industry in Changsha City has been in the V4 type, that is, the state of synchronized development under the high level of coordination, which indicates that the integration level of the two industries is high, and the synergistic effect between the industries is strong. As for other cities, they are all in an antagonistic or grinding state due to the low coupling coordination level, and the development gap between cities and states is obvious. On the whole, the type of coordinated development of cultural industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province is low, and the depth of integration still needs to be deepened.
Overall trend analysis is a mathematical method that uses mathematical surfaces to simulate the distribution and trend of a certain element in geographical space. The basic process is to determine the latitude and longitude of the object of study and plot it on the
Where:
According to Equation (10), the software Arcmap10.7 is used to visualize the overall trend of the coupling coordination degree of culture and tourism industry in Hunan Province cities and states in 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022 by three-dimensional spatial fitting, and the overall spatial trend of the coupling coordination degree of culture and tourism industry in Hunan Province is obtained as shown in Fig. 6. The

Overall spatial trend of coupling coordination degree
On the whole, the coupling coordination degree of cultural industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province in different years shows the distribution characteristics of high in the middle and low at both ends in the east-west and north-south directions, and the spatial difference is more obvious in the north-south direction. In the east-west direction, the coupling degree of coordination between cultural industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province increases from east to west and then decreases, but the eastern region is obviously lower than the western region. The increasing and decreasing trends in the north-south direction are generally consistent with those in the east-west direction. During the study period, the cities located near the inverted “U” peak are the advantageous areas for the coupling and coordination of cultural industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province. In conclusion, based on the trend analysis of the coupling and coordination degree of Hunan’s cultural and tourism industries, it was found that the Matthew effect is obvious, while the trickle-down effect is weak.
This paper takes the cities and states of Hunan Province in China as the research object, and by constructing a coupling and coordination model of culture and tourism industry, it measures the comprehensive development level, coupling degree, and coupling coordination degree of their culture and tourism industries by using principal component analysis, coupling degree, and coupling coordination model, and it analyzes the general trend of the coupling and coordination development.
First, 31 provinces and municipalities in China were selected as research objects to measure the comprehensive development level of their cultural industries and tourism industries. The overall development of cultural industry in 31 provinces and municipalities in China shows an upward trend, and there are differences in the growth rate of cultural industry development in different provinces, with larger increases in Beijing, Zhejiang, and Tibet, and little fluctuation in the development index of cultural industry in Liaoning Province. Tourism industry development is faster, Guizhou and Yunnan have obvious advantages, and the tourism industry development index in Ningxia is less volatile. The coupling and coordination degree of its culture and tourism industry shows a stable growth trend in 2015-2022, the national level of integrated development of culture and tourism industry realizes different degrees of growth, Guizhou’s growth rate realizes faster growth, and Shanghai’s level of integrated development of culture and tourism industry is higher but with a smaller growth rate.
Secondly, Hunan Province is considered as a specific research object. During the decade from 2013 to 2022, the comprehensive development level of the cultural industry and tourism industry in Hunan Province’s cities (states) has continued to improve, and the development trend is relatively stable, but in general, the development speed of the cultural industry slightly exceeds that of the tourism industry, presenting a stage-by-stage development characteristic in time, while there is obvious spatial variability in the geographical area. From the perspective of spatial pattern, the pattern changes from high in the middle and high in the north and south to high in the middle and low in the surroundings. The synthesis of the relevant conclusions shows that the changes in policy, economy, technology, and consumer demand of tourists are the external pull to promote the integration of culture and tourism industry, while manpower and institutions are the internal driving force for the integration and development, and thus it is necessary to design the specific path for the integration and development of the two major industries from these two perspectives.