Tourism green production efficiency serves as the foundation for assessing the mutual coupling performance of the tourism economy and the ecological environment. In this paper, the tourism carbon sink is included in the measurement framework, and the TGPE of 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region from 2011 to 2019 is estimated by the Super-SBM model. Furthermore, kernel density estimate, spatial autocorrelation, Markov chain and spatial Durbin model are further integrated to explore its spatio-temporal evolution process, spatial effects and influencing factors. The results show that 1) TG...