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Abstract
Analysis of the region The ecological environment is extremely fragile with a long-term environmental degradation, and the ecological restructuring should be one of the core works for regional sustainable development in Aral Sea Basin. The in-depth integration of the digital economy with cultural and tourism industries has opened up a new path for ecological restoration and industrial upgrading in the basin. This paper, which takes the Symbiosis Theory, Digital Economy Theory, Digital Ecological Synergy Theory and Cultural-Tourism Integration Theory into account as its framework and is based on the ecological and cultural-tourism resource characteristics of the Aral Sea Basin region, gives a systematic analysis of status quo and problems in digital cultural-tourism industry. It offers a novel roadmap of “Data-Driven—Technology-Empowered—Ecological Synergy”. The study finds the bottlenecks of the digital cultural tourism industry in the Aral Sea are data seperation and ecological silo, slow implementation of advanced technologies, and lack of industrial chain synergy. These issues need to be addressed, such as constructing digital governance platforms, enhancing integration and innovation capabilities of the technology system and talent programme between ecology and the industry chain. The results show that under the influence of digital economy, improving industrial synergy effects and resource integration ability by informatization can significantly promote innovation in culture-tourism products, service mode upgrade and regional ecologic environment rebooting envisions. In addition, the multi-party cooperation among government, enterprise and society serves to integrate policy guidance, capital input technology support and talents cultivating effectively for high-quality industrial development. The results of this article can not only offer theoretical support and practical path selection for the digital innovation and ecological rearrangement of the cultural-tourism industry in Aral Sea Basin, but also have reference significance to the transformation, upgrading and eco-reconstruction of cultural tourism industries in other areas.