Analysis Of The Relationship Between Star Hotels Agglomeration And TFP Growth In Yangtze River Delta

Under the background of the new normal,developing the factor productivity total(TFP)is a core approach to maintain economic vitality.Star hotels are the core parts of tourism industry and the important link to achieve the goal of transformation and upgrading.During the fast-paced development of star hotels,there is a obvious trend of cluster development.lt is significant to seize and make full use of the cluster's advantages to achieve the rapid development of TFP.So there is practical value and guiding significance to search the relationship between them.The amount of current researches on the two variables' relationship is small.Most researchers take traditional methods and ignore the effect of spatial factors and cluster congestion on the relationship.So the thesis takes data of 26 cities' star hotels in Yangtze River Delta's from 2004 to 2015 as the research object.Based on summarizing the related theories and the existing research results,the thesis builds a theoretical framework of the mechanism of agglomeration on TFP growth.The thesis also uses the SDM to quantitatively analyze this influential effect and breaks it up into direct effect,indirect effect and total effect to investigate deeply the mechanism and approach of the effect.At last,the thesis analyzes the threshold characters of two variables' influential effect and works out the best agglomeration level based on the threshold regressive model.According to the results of analysis above,the thesis puts forward policies and suggestion to improve the TFP growth combined with comprehensively actual situation of Yangtze River Delta's star hotels.The conclusions are as follows:First,there is a rising trend of star hotels'agglomeration level and TFP growth in Yangtze River Delta during 2004 to 2015,but huge differences among cities.Second,star hotels' agglomeration level and TFP growth along with its decomposed indexes in Yangtze River Delta is showing a significant positive spatial correlation and spatial clustering trend,especially the high-level cluster of Shanghai and Suzhou etc,and the low-level cluster of Chizhou etc.Third,Yangtze River Delta's star hotels' agglomeration has a positive effect on TFP growth along with its decomposed indexes,and there also exits positive spatial spillover effect on it.From the view of effect mechanism and approach,star hotels'agglomeration's direct effect on TFP growth is mainly rely on the technical progress,and the indirect effect is mainly rely on the technical efficiency growth.Forth,there are significant threshold characters of Yangtze River Delta's star hotels'agglomeration's effect on TFP growth along with its decomposed indexes.And there exits only threshold value.At present,star hotels' agglomeration in all the cities despite of Shanghai and Suzhou have not achieved that level and have space to raise.The innovations of the thesis are made in three ways.First,taking in the spatial factors ignored in traditional methods and analyzing the relationship between star hotels' agglomeration and TFP growth from a spatial aspect.Second,taking Yangtze River Delta's star hotels as research objects fills a lack of research results on middle or small scale and tourism field.Third,the thesis affirms the threshold characters of it,which provides a limit for the efficient development of star hotels and provides a guide to develop in virtuous ways.