The Coupling Effect Between Digital Economy and Urban Leisure Industry: A Time Variation Based Quantitative Analysis

Abstract

Digital economy is an important part of realizing the structural optimization and transformation and upgrading of leisure industry structure. Promoting the cross-boundary integrated development of the leisure industry is an inevitable requirement of the social and economic development at the present stage. This paper takes Dongguan as the research area, constructs an evaluation index system of digital economy and leisure industry development, uses entropy weight method to evaluate the comprehensive development level of digital economy and leisure industry, and then analyzes the time variation trend of the coordinated development using coupling coordination degree, relative development model, and correlation analysis model. Results show the following. (1) From 2010 to 2020, the development level of digital economy and leisure industry in Dongguan fluctuates to a good trend. (2) In terms of development trend, from the digital economy lag, leisure industry lag to the synchronous development of both. (3) The coupling coordination shows an upward trend, developing from extreme disorder to mild coordination, but there is still a large room for optimization. Therefore, it is necessary to further improve the high-quality development of digital economy and leisure industry according to local conditions, improve their “coupling coordination degree”, and build a new system of digital leisure industry to realize the sustainable development.