Opening-up has served as a key driver of China's economic development and industrial advancement. As tourism plays a key role in promoting economic growth, understanding of the mechanisms through which opening-up influences the resilience of tourism economy is of great significance to the high-quality development of China's economy. Drawing on panel data from 30 provinces from 2004 to 2022,this study uses the core variable method to measure the resilience of tourism economy, and constructs a random-effects model to empirically test the impact of opening-up on the resilience of tourism economy and its underlying mechanisms. The empirical results show that: opening-up significantly enhances the resilience of the tourism economy; the enhancement occurs through the upgrading of the natural environment and humanistic environment; the effects of opening-up are moderated by policy implementation and re-source endowment differences. Specifically, opening-up has a significant effect on the resilience of tourism economy in regions of low resource endowments, whereas the effect is not significant in regions with high resource endowment. To better respond to the complex changes in the external environment and enhance the resilience of tourism economy in China, it is necessary to further deepen opening-up, improve the tourism industry chain, enhance the tourism competitiveness, and adopt differentiated strategies based on resource endowments, thereby fully leveraging the role of opening-up in boosting environmental upgrading and sustainable growth.

In recent years, the soaring popularity of local specialties, from Zibo barbecue to Tianshui spicy hotpot, has ignited a nationwide tourism boom, turning regional cuisine into a powerful “golden brand” that attracts visitors. These trends reflect the profound influence of culinary experiences on tourists’behavioral intentions and prompt scholars to consider how The Journey on the Tip of the Tongue shapes tourism experiences. Based on the Stimulus - Organism - Response(SOR)theory, this study constructs a relational model illustrating how culinary experiences in tourism affect behavioral intentions, and proposes hypotheses regarding the relationships among culinary experience, food consumption emotions, perceived value, and behavioral intention. Using an online questionnaire, 24l valid responses were collected, and empirical tests were conducted through SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0.The main findings are as follows:(1)The entertainment experience and aesthetic experience dimensions of culinary tourism significantly in-fluence food consumption emotions;(2)Food consumption emotions and perceived value significantly in-fluence behavioral intention;(3) Food consumption emotions and perceived value play a partial mediating role between the entertainment experience dimension of culinary experience and behavioral intention, while perceived value plays a full mediating role between the aesthetic experience dimension of culinary experience and behavioral intention. This study contributes to the literature on culinary tourism by clarifying the mechanism through which culinary experiences influence tourists’behavioral intentions and offers practical implications for destinations to develop effective culinary marketing strategies.

The impact of nature reserves and ecotourism on local economies has been widely debated in academia. This study takes the Lashihai Plateau Wetland Nature Reserve, located in an underdeveloped region of southwest China, as an example and utilizes the data from a longitudinal farmer tracking survey conducted from 2010 to 2016 to examine the impacts of nature reserves and ecotourism on household in-come. The results show that the establishment of nature reserves did not hinder local community economic development; instead, households achieved sustained income growth through livelihood transitions.Specialized fruit cultivation and migrant labor have gradually become alternative livelihood strategies for household outside the nature reserves, while farmers within the NR rely mainly on ecotourism to increase their income.The establishment of nature reserves has significantly reduced household grain income but increased earnings from specialized agroforestry and ecotourism, with proportionally greater gains observed in ecotourism revenue.Household participation in ecotourism can significantly increase their income level and reduce the need for labor out-migration, but this occurs at the cost of widening the income gap among household. Based on this, the study puts forward some policy suggestions, including improving the ecological compensation policy of nature reserves, promoting the employment of farmers around nature re-serves, strengthening skills training for the labor force and optimizing the participation and benefit sharing mechanism of ecotourism. The research findings provide empirical evidence for improving coordination mechanism between ecological conversation and economic development in underdeveloped areas.

In heritage tourism practice, symbiotic relationships among multiple stakeholders have become increasingly complex, and the tension between cultural heritage conservation objectives and economic development imperatives poses tangible challenges to system stability and long-term adaptive capacity. This study examines the resilience and adaptive governance of multi-stakeholder symbiotic systems in World Heritage tourism destinations, focusing on the interaction between cultural and economic resilience. Grounded in the "dual-cycle resilience" framework, the research constructs an evaluation model integrating cultural and economic resilience cycles to assess destination resilience.
The findings highlight three major insights. First, cultural resilience demonstrates "strong innovation and recovery capacity but weak defensive resistance." Innovation capacity demonstrates the highest performance, reflecting substantial support from financial inputs, digital transformation, and cultural transmission initiatives. Recovery capacity ranks second, underscored by effective governance structures and industrial integration. Defensive resistance, however, is the lowest, indicating deficiencies in proactive risk management and cultural identity building.Second, economic resilience is characterized by "robust internal support and governance-driven recovery but constrained innovation potential." Although governance effectiveness and industrial diversification facilitate adaptive recovery, limitations in cost control, infrastructure readiness, and digital-intelligent technology applications restrict long-term stability and innovation capacity. Third, coupling coordination analysis reveals structural complementarity but uneven development between cultural and economic resilience. High coordination is observed in governance structures and community practices, whereas social pressures, funding security, and innovation capacity exhibit low coordination, constraining holistic system resilience improvement.
Theoretically, this study advances heritage tourism resilience research by integrating cultural and economic dimensions into a unified dual-cycle framework, addressing the limited attention previously given to their interactions. The model also bridges a gap between theoretical construction and empirical application, offering a quantifiable approach that connects resilience theory to practical assessment.
Practically, the findings highlight the importance of targeted investment, policy support, and stakeholder collaboration. Strengthening cultural identity building, knowledge transfer, and digital-intelligent technology is essential for fostering innovation capacity and achieving a virtuous cycle of cultural preservation and economic sustainability.

Graduate education serves as the cornerstone for nurturing talent in tourism research, with the cultivation of academic literacy being its fundamental pillar. Taking the course “Principles and Methods of Tourism Planning", which has been offered for more than 20 years at Sun Yat-sen Univeristy, as a case study, this research constructs an academic teaching model aimed at improving graduate students’ academic literacy.Centered on the instructor's academic career characterized by the “theory-practice”cyclic trajcctory, the course design establishes a continuous research-oriented dialogue space through four academic teaching practices : academic career condensation, research process analysis, insight and judgment sharing, and multi-dimensional teacher-student interactions. The interplay among the instructor, students and classroom facilitates the three-dimensional construction and transformative experience of academic literacy,which is co-constructed by academic values, academic thinking, disciplinary cognition, and academic mindset. The model emphasizes the creation of a "research-oriented” classroom in which the teacher's academic life and teaching practice are mutually reinforcing, offering an exemplary pathway for advancing the quality of graduate tourism education.

The enhancement of urban economic resilience through the development of new-quality productivity in tourism holds significant theoretical and practical implications for improving urban governance and advancing high-quality economic and social development. Based on the tripartite framework of productive forces in Marxist theory, this study constructs an indicator system to measure the level of new-quality productivity in tourism. Using panel data from 284 prefecture-level cities in China from 2013 to 2022, this pa-per examines the mechanism through which new-quality productivity in tourism influences urban economic resilience.The findings reveal that:(1)New-quality productivity in tourism significantly enhances urban economic resilience;(2) Such forces strengthen cities’capacities for resistance and recovery, adaptation and adjustment, and innovation and transformation, with the most pronounced effect observed on innovation and transformation capabilities;(3) Talent development, industrial upgrading, and urban innovation serve as mediating mechanisms in this process;(4) The impact of new-quality productivity in tourism on urban economic resilience exhibits heterogeneity across city location, size, resource endowment, and city type. This study provides insights for urban economic resilience and offers policy recommendations for promoting high-quality development in tourism and sustainable urban economies.

Tourism in China's border provinces plays a crucial role in the national strategy but is highly vulnerable to external shocks. There is an urgent need to systematically examine the spatiotemporal evolution and driving mechanisms of tourism resilience to enhance sustainable development and risk resistance capacity. This study takes the nine border provinces of China as the research objects and employs methods such as entropy weighting method, TOPSIS model, Moran index and geographic detector to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution of tourism resilience in these regions and its driving factors. It constructs an evaluation index system from four dimensions: geopolitical force, basic resilience, environmental adaptability and continuous renewal capacity. The research findings are as follows:①Tourism resilience in China's border provinces exhibits a sequential pattern of " Southwest border region>Northeast border region>Western border region" ;②Spatially, Liaoning constitutes the first echelon of tourism resilience, while the agglomeration pattern demonstrates a relatively stable concentration in the southwest border region;③The driving factors underlying the spatiotemporal evolution of tourism resilience in China's border provinces present a trend of "opening up to the outside world > economic development>ecological environment>cultural development".