DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2016.v03i12.006

Pages: 680-687

Taking Guangdong Province as an example, the paper verifies the Grainger causal relation between the urbanization process and the development of tourism industry, and analyses the regional difference of the urbanization influence on the tourism industry development and the reasons of such regional difference. The major conclusions are as follows: (1)Urbanization plays a long and stable role in promoting the development of tourism. When the significant level is 5%, the urbanization is the one-way Granger cause for the development of tourism industry. (2)The influence of urbanization on the tourism industry has a large regional difference. The promotion of the Pearl River Delta urbanization to the tourism industry is most efficient, followed by the eastern Guangdong, the western Guangdong, and the northern Guangdong is the worst. (3)The differences of every urbanization dimension’s development level in different regions and the different impacts of urbanization’s different dimensions on tourism development are the main reasons for the existence of regional differences in tourism development.