Author(s)

Yi Sun ¹, Lei Zhang ¹, Yangmei Xu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Liaoning University of International Business and Economics, Dalian, Liaoning, 116052, China

Corresponding Author

Yi Sun

ABSTRACT

In recent years, with the rapid development of digital technology, digitalization has become an important force to promote the development of all industries in China. However, Liaoning forest recreation industry still exists problems such as imperfect digital infrastructure and limited innovation ability of digital technology in digital transformation. Therefore, how to integrate digitalization with Liaoning forest recreation industry has become a problem to be solved. This paper describes the concept and history of digital transformation of Liaoning forest recreation industry, and analyzes the current digitalization status in detail by combining the geographical distribution of Liaoning forest recreation bases, the demand side and the supply side, and analyzes the driving factors of digital transformation and upgrading of Liaoning forest recreation industry in terms of both internal and external driving factors, and finds that the driving factors are in the form of causal feedback relationship that influences each other, and constructs a causal feedback diagram. The causal feedback relationship is found and a causal feedback diagram is constructed. Finally, relevant suggestions are put forward to improve the digitization level of Liaoning forest recreation, strengthen the construction of digital infrastructure, promote the upgrading and development of the industrial chain, and facilitate the digital transformation of Liaoning forest recreation industry.

KEYWORDS

Forest Recreation, Digital Transformation, Motivating Factors

CITE THIS PAPER

Yi Sun, Lei Zhang, Yangmei Xu, Research on Driving Factors and Strategies of Digital Development of Forest Health Industry in Liaoning Province. Population, Resources & Environmental Economics (2024) Vol. 5: 10-22. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/pree.2024.050202.

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