Coupling Coordination Analysis of China’s Tourism Inclusive Green Growth System and Its Dynamic Evolution

With this research, we aim to outline and analyze China’s tourism inclusive green growth system and explore its dynamic evolution in terms of economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social inclusiveness. By establishing an evaluation index system and using the entropy weight method, grey correlation, and the coupling coordination model, we analyzed the development level, subsystem correlation strength, and coupling coordination degree of China’s tourism inclusive green growth from 2004 to 2022. The main findings are as follows: (1) The tourism inclusive green growth index is generally on an upward trend. The economic growth subsystem is sensitive to emergencies, the social inclusion subsystem demonstrates strong robustness, the environmental sustainability subsystem shows resilience, and the overall system has strong adaptability. (2) From 2004 to 2010, the tourism economy dominated green growth; from 2011 to 2016, the three pillars of tourism inclusive green growth were driven in a coordinated manner; from 2017 to 2018, social inclusion dominated green growth; from 2019 to 2020, the epidemic caused fluctuations; and from 2021 to 2022, economic recovery became the main driving force. (3) From 2004 to 2022, the coordination among the tourism economy, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability significantly improved, especially after 2015. This research emphasizes the balance among economy, society, and environment in China’s tourism development and promotes the realization of multi-dimensional win–win results.