Abstract
The status of women is an influential factor in supporting the stable development of families and societies. How to improve women’s status has become a focus in gender studies, with emerging digital technologies and tourism expenditure thought to have potential impacts. This research investigated relationships among digital technology use, tourism expenditure, and women’s family status using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The impacts were determined through developing baseline regression and stepwise regression models. The main findings were: (1) Digital technology use had a significant and positive effect on women’s family status, and there were differences among urban and rural areas; (2) digital technology use had a significant and positive effect on tourism expenditure, while tourism expenditure had a significant and positive effect on women’s family status; and (3) tourism expenditure partially mediated the positive effect of digital technology use on women’s family status.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
1-1-2025
Funding Information
National Natural Science Foundation of China (42371267) / Excellent Young Talents Program of Beijing International Studies University (BJTD22A002)
School
School of Business and Law
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Identifier
Recommended Citation
Wang, J., Hu, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, X., & Morrison, A. M. (2025). The impacts of digital technology use and tourism expenditure on women’s family status: Evidence from China. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2025.2495648
Comments
Wang, J., Hu, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, X., & Morrison, A. M. (2025). The impacts of digital technology use and tourism expenditure on women’s family status: Evidence from China. Tourism Recreation Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2025.2495648