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Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development – Sung, Kao & Chen (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00053-7
A research on the effect of tourism industry on regional economic
growth in China
Lei Zhang
Department of Investigation, Jiangsu Police Institute, Nanjing, China
Bang-Yuan Wu
Department of Economics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
ABSTRACT: As an emerging industry, tourism industry’s development has formed a certain scale in
China; the impact on China’s economic growth has become increasingly stronger. In this paper, we use
the macro-economic data from 1999 to 2008 to make an empirical test on the effect of tourism industry
on economic growth in central China by Cobb-Douglas production function and panel data ...