Population Aging and Household Tourism Consumption—An Empirical Study Based on China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) Data-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Population Aging and Household Tourism Consumption—An Empirical Study Based on China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) Data

Published:2023-06-23 Issue:13 Volume:15 Page:9989
ISSN:2071-1050
Container-title:Sustainability
language:en
Short-container-title:Sustainability

Author:

Cai Xing¹²^ORCID,Zhang Yinhe²

Affiliation:

1. Hunan Key Laboratory of Macroeconomic Big Data Mining and Its Application, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China

2. School of Business, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China

Abstract

The ever deepening population aging has brought opportunities and challenges to the continued expansion of tourism consumption in China. We explore the impact of population aging on household tourism consumption, by using the data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2014, 2016 and 2018. We found that population aging has a negative mediating effect on household tourism consumption by reducing household economic conditions. The improvement of health status of the elderly and Internet use have a significant positive moderating effect on the impact of population aging on household tourism consumption, but intergenerational care have no such effect. The results of the heterogeneity analysis show that the negative impact of population aging on household tourism consumption in urban areas is greater than that in rural areas, and the negative impact of population aging on household tourism consumption of families with the old-old elderly is greater than that of families with the young-old elderly. The conclusions of this article provide important references for activating tourism consumption in China in the context of population aging.

Funder

Scientific Research Project of Hunan Province`s Education Department

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/13/9989/pdf

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