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Yanbo Yao(e-mail: yaoyanbo666@126.com) is a professor in the College of Tourism and Service Mangement,Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Her research is focused on tourism enterprise integrity, tourism economics and management and elderly travel.

Xiaodi Liu(e-mail: 1120201121@mail.nankai.edu.cn) is a PhD student in the College of Tourism and Service Mangement, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Her research interests include tourism economics and the relationship between tourism development and economic growth.

Yi Yang(e-mail: 56530885@qq.com) is a professor in the College of Business Administration and Tourism Management, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. His research is focused on hospitality finance and tourism economics and management.

Abstract (150 Words)

The relationship between tourism industry dependence and economic growth is still controversial, and there are few quantitative studies on its transmission mechanism. Based on the Resource Curse hypothesis, the panel data of 46 excellent tourism cities in the western region from 2000 to 2017 was used to examine the existence and transmission mechanism of the Resource Curse. The results show that: tourism industry dependence in the western region of China appears as a "curse" rather than a "gospel" for economic growth, and the transmission route of the "curse" effect is mainly that the tourism industry has a negative impact on the regional economy by squeezing out the manufacturing industry. The findings of the paper provide a theoretical proof for the existence and transmission mechanism of the tourism resource curse in western China, and have certain enlightenment for similar regions to avoid falling into the tourism resources curse trap.

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How does tourism industry dependence affect economic growth in western China? --Based on the inspection and interpretation of the Resource Curse transmission mechanism

The relationship between tourism industry dependence and economic growth is still controversial, and there are few quantitative studies on its transmission mechanism. Based on the Resource Curse hypothesis, the panel data of 46 excellent tourism cities in the western region from 2000 to 2017 was used to examine the existence and transmission mechanism of the Resource Curse. The results show that: tourism industry dependence in the western region of China appears as a "curse" rather than a "gospel" for economic growth, and the transmission route of the "curse" effect is mainly that the tourism industry has a negative impact on the regional economy by squeezing out the manufacturing industry. The findings of the paper provide a theoretical proof for the existence and transmission mechanism of the tourism resource curse in western China, and have certain enlightenment for similar regions to avoid falling into the tourism resources curse trap.