Empirical Study on Relationship of Informatization and Tourism in China

The relationship between informatization and tourism tops the agenda of the economics research. In this paper, cointegration analysis, error correction model and Granger causality estimation were used to test the relationship of China's informatization and tourism,based on the data from 1994 to 2009. The empirical test showed that although the short-run fluctuation exists, there is a stable equilibrium relation between China's informatization and tourism in the long run. In addition, on the comparison of between international and domestic tourism, it concluded that the informatization plays more significant role in promoting domestic tourism than international tourism.