New quality productive forces, as a novel driving force for the high-quality development of the tourism industry, essentially represents the result of collaborative innovation among“Technology-Factor of production-Industry” driving the tourism industry from pursuing quantity growth to focusing on value enhancement. This paper systematically examines the evolutionary logic of new quality productive forces that empower the tourism industry’s upgrading process. Based on Schumpeter’s innovation theory framework, it elucidates the connotative characteristics and collaborative innovation mechanisms of high-quality tourism development, and conducts a case study using the Impression·Sanjie LIU live performance as a typical example to deconstruct the“Technology-Factor of production-Industry”collaborative innovation ecosystem of new quality productive forces driving high-quality tourism development. The research findings reveal the following: technological innovation achieves Pareto improvement of factors of production through digital empowerment, effectively reducing marginal costs and expanding economies of scale, thereby generating factor rents as a new value form; the optimization and allocation of factors of production trigger structural transformations in industrial organization, creating structural dividend effects and releasing industrial upgrading potential; industrial innovation forms Schumpeterian innovation effects through vertical value chain extension and horizontal format integration, breaking traditional market equilibrium and path dependence, to construct new patterns of monopolistic competition in industrial development. This ultimately forms a closed-loop system of“Technology-Factor of production-Industry”collaborative innovation for high-quality tourism development.

Innovation is the core driving force of social progress and the key new productive force for the deep integration of culture and tourism. Based on the dual logic of form and content, this paper systematically reviews the evolution of China’s culture and tourism innovation over more than forty years, in the context of integration, from the perspective of innovation theory. The research shows that, jointly driven by the social environment, technological progress, and market demand, China’s culture and tourism innovation practices have achieved iterative upgrading, from root innovation, to domain innovation and then to dimensional innovation demonstrating dual integration characteristics of form and content innovation. Specifically, culture and tourism innovation has evolved from an early-stage unity of form and content, to mid-term dominance of content innovation, to later-stage form innovation dominance, and finally to a current reemergence of content innovation dominance. Using industrial value chain analysis tools, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis of culture and tourism content production and innovation processes. It reveals that content innovation at the dimensional level is the dominant model of current culture and tourism innovation, with the “creativity-leadership+technology-enpowerment” dual-track collaborative mechanism serving as the key pathway for driving deep integration of culture and tourism.

Culture-tourism integration policies are crucial for promoting the prosperity and development of China’s culture-tourism industry. By quantitatively evaluating such policies, this study offers valuable references for formulating future culture-tourism integration policies. This research selects 87 culture-tourism integration policy texts issued by various levels of government in China, and constructs a two-dimensional analytical framework: policy tools (X) and policy objectives (Y). Using NVivo 11 software, the study conducts a systematic quantitative evaluation and analysis of the textual content of these policies. The findings show that from the policy tools dimension, there is clear imbalance in the government’s use of policy tools. Learning tools, capacity tools, and incentive tools are used more frequently, while symbolic and hortatory tools and authority tools are used relatively less frequently. From the policy objectives dimension, the goals set for promoting culture-tourism integration are relatively balanced. However, some regional policies lack sufficient targeting and local characteristics. To address this, local culture-tourism departments should optimize policy supply by adjusting the allocation of policy tools, enhancing policy matching, coordination, and targeting. They should also emphasize the exploration and promotion of local culture, highlight regional uniqueness, and develop more targeted and distinctive policy measures.

In tourism research, memorable tourism experience represents a popular perspective for evaluating tourism experiences. Kim, Ritchie, and McCormick (2012) developed a related scale applicable across various tourism contexts, though some controversies remain. This paper employs systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis methods to deeply explore international research progress on MTE, including its definition, differentiation, context, measurement, dimensions, antecedents, and consequences, and constructs a comprehensive research framework based on these findings. Key findings: (1) Memorable tourism experience can be defined as a post-travel experience sufficiently significant to be retained in long-term memory, with substantial influence on tourists’future behavioral decisions. (2) Research development can be divided into four stages: “germination period”, “formation period”, “development period”and“critical development period”. (3) MTE measurement currently relies on four main methods, for which this study provides in-depth analysis of applicable conditions. Regarding the seven-dimensional scale developed by Kim, Ritchie, and McCormick (2012) and its application in empirical studies, this paper finds that hedonism, involvement, novelty, and meaningfulness are the most prevalent dimensions for predicting tourist behavior. It also identifies potential new dimensions, including social interaction, perceived serendipity, negative feelings, and pleasure. (4) Based on CiteSpace literature clustering analysis, five major research themes are identified:“MTE frontiers”, “MTE modeling”, “cultural heritage tourism and experience co-creation”, “destination attributes and experience management” and “MTE and well-being”. Focusing on empirical research, the study systematically summarizes the driving factors, effects, and mechanisms of MTE. (5) For future research, six directions are proposed: conducting specific memory structure research across diverse populations, strengthening focus on negative MTE; promoting application of memory characteristic scales; expanding studies on MTE effects; constructing theoretical frameworks for memory management; promoting the integrated development of service-dominant logic.