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Night cultural and tourism consumption areas (NCTCAs) have become an important carrier to light up the city's night-time economic (NTE). Improving the consumption experience of NCTCAs is an effective way to promote the high-quality development of NCTCAs and release their economic potential. Based on the review data of NCTCAs and Ctrip travel platform above the provincial level, this paper analyzes the spatial distribution characteristics of NCTCAs and their Internet word-of-mouth (IWOM) by combining nearest neighbor index and kernel density estimation methods, and further discusses the influencing factors of IWOM of NCTCAs based on Geodetector. It is found as follows. ➀ The NCTCAs in China are mainly distributed in the southeast of Hu Line, and the different types of NCTCAs have spatial differences. ➁ The IWOM of the NCTCAs is generally good and presents a spatial pattern of two poles and multiple cores. The high-value areas of IWOM are basically distributed in the diamond arrangement area in east of Hu Line, while the core areas and sub-core areas are mostly located in the T-shaped development axis zone in China. ➂ Socio-economic factors such as urban consumption power, tertiary industry and population have a strong influence on IWOM of NCTCAs. Among them, total retail sales of consumer goods are the dominant factor, which together with the Baidu search index constitute the leading interactive factors of IWOM for various NCTCAs. Therefore, in the process of construction and development of NCTCAs, we should reasonably cultivate and lay out the economic growth poles at night, improve consumer satisfaction and promote the formation of high-quality NCTCAs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a new mode of economic development, night-time economy has gradually become the new power of urban economic development. Based on the panel data of 26 cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from 2012 to 2019, this paper first discussed the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of the night-time economic development level of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration by using the kernel density estimation method and spatial autocorrelation analysis, and then constructed a spatial panel model to conduct an empirical study on the influencing factors of the night-time economic development level. The results show that the night-time economic development level of most cities is still in the middle and low stage, but the overall development level is constantly improving and the polarization trend is decreasing year by year. It presents a spatial distribution pattern centered on Shanghai and gradually decreasing towards inland and periphery, with strong positive spatial correlation, and the spatial correlation features are mainly “high-high” and “low-low” aggregation types. Per capita disposable income, urbanization level, industrial structure and government capital investment all significantly promote the nighttime economic development in this region. There are spatial spillover effects in urbanization level, industrial structure and transportation level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As China is promoting the "dual circulation" development pattern, a pattern that takes domestic development as the mainstay, with domestic and international development reinforcing each other, the priority of the upcoming work is to establish a systematic and perfect domestic demand system so that consumption will become the driving force of economic growth. As one of modern urban informal economies, night-time economy has played an important role in promoting household consumption, its structural upgrading and simulating the comprehensive economic recovery. However, very few empirical studies have been conducted to investigate the impact of night-time economy on household consumption and its structural upgrading. Moreover, research on heterogeneity and mechanism test is particularly insufficient. Based on the calibrated data of night light and China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), the present empirical study aims to reveal the impact of night-time economy on household consumption and its structural upgrading. The results show that night-time economy has a significantly positive impact on the total consumption, the development and enjoyment consumption and upgrading of consumption structure, while it has no significant impact on survival consumption. It's indicated by the heterogeneity test that the positive effect of night-time economy on the total consumption and the upgrading of consumption structure is more significant among higher education group, high-income group and employed group. According to the results of mechanism test, total income significantly strengthens the impact of night-time economy on household consumption and its structural upgrading; household debt significantly weakens the impact of night-time economy on the upgrading of household consumption structure; financial asset status significantly strengthens the impact of night-time economy on the total household consumption. This paper contributes to the existing literature from two perspectives. Firstly, we discuss in this paper the theoretical mechanism of night-time economy' s impact on household consumption and its structural upgrading, which will expand the literature on night-time economy and household consumption from a new perspective. Secondly, different from previous studies which attempted to clarify the impact of night-time economy on household consumption, we categorized household consumption into survival consumption, development and enjoyment consumption. Meanwhile, the upgrading of household consumption structure was defined as the proportion increase of development and enjoyment consumption in the total consumption. The impact of night-time economy on total household consumption, development and enjoyment consumption and the upgrading of consumption structure was investigated. As for the impact of other factors such as education, income and job types, we conducted heterogeneity analysis to explore the differences between different consumption groups the impact of night-time economy on household consumption and its structural upgrading. We further explored the regulatory role of household income, household debt and financial assets in the impact of night-time economy on household consumption and its structural upgrading. This paper reveals the underlying relationship between night-time economy and Chinese household consumption, which will provide insights for governments' policy-making to promote household consumption under the "dual circulation" development strategy. It will also help policy-makers to design differentiated support policies for different consumer groups so as to give full play to the role of night-time economy in promoting household consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]