This paper contributes to providing causal evidence on the effect of World Heritage Site (WHS) inscription on city tourism attractiveness, which is still highly elusive in the existing literature. To identify the causal effect, it uses unique daily city-pair tourist flows from Tencent migration...

This paper estimates the effect of high-speed rail (HSR) on city tourism. To identify the causal effect, we measure tourism outcomes with population flow data from Tencent migration big data and construct daily panel data of two national holidays from April 2015 to May 2019. Empirical results...