TOURISM SCIENCE ›› 2025, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (8): 74-95.

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Characteristics Analysis and Development Trend Research of Chinese Tourism Patents

HU Mingming1,2, YE Yuling1,*   

  1. 1. School of Business, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China;
    2. Guangxi Institute of Development Strategy, Nanning 530004, China
  • Received:2023-03-29 Revised:2025-06-05 Online:2025-08-30 Published:2025-11-04

Abstract: By collecting, counting and visualizing the data of Chinese tourism-related patents, this paper studies the development history and future trends of Chinese tourism-related patents around time trends, application subjects, spatial distribution, technology structures and major technological advances. Key findings of this study indicate that: (1) Enterprises, individuals and schools are the main force of tourism technology innovation, but there is a lack of cooperative patents; future invention patents are dominated by schools and enterprises; (2) there is a more significant gradient characteristic of patent output in the east, middle and west; (3) tourism-related patents focus more on tourism product development, mainly on tourism facilities and equipment and tourism products; (4) the field of tourism technology innovation is changing to tourism education and tourism digital intelligence under the influence of communication technology, and schools and enterprises become the main boosters of tourism digital intelligence. Based on this, this paper puts forward the development trend of tourism technology innovation in order to provide reference for the research and application of tourism-related technologies and further enhance the competitiveness of tourism-related industries.

Key words: tourism industry, patent data, patent development trend, patent structure, technological innovation

CLC Number: 

  • F59

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