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This study provides empirical evidence of how tourism triggers economic growth from a meso-level structural perspective. It introduces a novel shift-share approach in accordance with the Lewis hypothesis to analyze the spillover effect of tourism on economic restructuring and sectoral labor productivity. The study demonstrates a hump-shaped positive structural spillover effect exerted by tourism onto economic growth and identifies the emergence of a new tourism-related industrialization in the showcased destination, the Zhangjiajie city in China. The study captures the interactions between tourism and the other sectors of the economy and contributes to an in-depth understanding of tourism’s contribution to overall economy.

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labor productivity Lewis hypothesis structural bonus Baumol’s disease tourism-related industrialization shift-share approach (SSA)

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A Structural Change and Productivity Perspective of Tourism’s Contribution to Economic Growth: The Case of Zhangjiajie in China

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