Air Pollution and Tourism: Evidence from G20 Countries

Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi; Pan, Lei; Paramati, Sudharshan Reddy

doi:10.1177/0047287520977724

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“…Considering the spillover effect, fewer people choose to come to China in the Asian region, while more and more foreigners travel to Southeast Asia. This result is consistent with most existing research (Dong et al 2019 ; Xu et al 2020 ; Churchill et al 2022 ), which can highlight the importance of considering the spillover effects when evaluating the relationship between air quality and international tourism arrivals.…”

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“…Zhou et al ( 2019 ) demonstrated that air pollution has a negative influence on tourism flows and that this effect is more pronounced for inbound tourism than for domestic tourism. Churchill et al ( 2022 ) found that the growth of both CO 2 and PM 2.5 emissions adversely affects international tourist arrivals. All these conclusions show the negative impact of air quality deterioration on tourism.…”

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“…First, we study the relationship between air quality and international tourist arrivals worldwide. Many studies are limited in scope as they tend to focus on single countries or specific geographic areas and rarely focus on the international perspective (Churchill et al 2022 ). However, tourism resources are available all over the world.…”

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The impact of air quality on international tourism arrivals: a global panel data analysis

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Using data from World Development Indicators (WDI), this research constructs panel data of 99 countries from 1996 to 2018 and employs a spatial econometric model to analyze the impact of air quality on international tourism arrivals. Evidence shows that Moran’s I values are significantly positive, indicating a strong positive spatial dependence in each country and that poor air quality does have a negative impact on the number of tourist arrivals. The results of grouped data illustrate that middle-income countries, low-income countries, high concentrations of PM 2.5 , and countries with less numbers of tourists have negative effects on tourist arrivals in neighboring countries. The contrary groups, however, have positive effects on tourist arrivals – that is, the influence of air quality on the number of tourist arrivals exhibits heterogeneity. In addition, tests of the interaction term show that countries with higher R&D intensity have better air quality and thus attract more tourists. Therefore, countries with poor air quality should improve the environment through international cooperation and undertake technology transfer, thus ultimately increasing the number of tourists.

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The impact of air quality on international tourism arrivals: a global panel data analysis

2022

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“…If PM10 concentration increases by one-unit, the domestic and inbound tourism arrivals decline by 0.19% and 0.33%, respectively. Churchill, Pan, and Paramati (2020) Pre-trip effect Increased CO 2 and PM2.5 have adverse effects on tourist arrival in both developed and developing Economies. Specifically, a 1% increase in CO 2 and PM2.5 emissions are associated with a 0.69% and 0.5% decrease in tourist arrivals, respectively.…”

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Big Data for Big Insights: Quantifying the Adverse Effect of Air Pollution on the Tourism Industry in China

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Journal of Travel Research

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Adverse meteorological conditions and air pollution resulting from human activities, such as extreme weather and smog, adversely affect the global tourism industry. However, such impacts are difficult to quantify. This study strives to quantify the adverse impact of air pollution on foreign tourists’ revisiting behaviors to China by analyzing large numbers of TripAdvisor reviews. The study first identifies travelers affected by air pollution through analyzing their reviews. It then employs propensity score matching technique to detect a matching group of travelers with identical characteristics who did not report air-pollution-related issues in reviews. By estimating their respective likelihoods of revisiting, our results indicate that travelers who encountered air pollution during their trips are 92.857% less likely to revisit a specific city and 93.421% less likely to revisit China. Our study enriches the tourism literature by quantifying the adverse impact of air pollution on a country’s inbound tourism using big data.

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“…The last studied phenomenon that serves tourist arrivals is the idea of zero-emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Contemporary tourists already choose green destinations over the smoggy ones [106,107]. Therefore, the idea is to study the opposite data, where tourist arrivals are a dependent variable instead of previous research where tourist arrivals were treated as an independent variable [108].…”

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Sustainable Determinants That Affect Tourist Arrival Forecasting

2021

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This study considers diversification effects and significant influences on tourist arrivals as a vital export direction. Different quantitative methods, namely a cointegrated-autoregressive model, panels, sentiment and sensitivity analysis, were used in this study. The time-series data for Croatia and Slovenia were isolated from several secondary sources. The variables examined in this approach are tourist arrivals, precipitations, sunny days, earthquakes, microbes and CO2 emissions. The study results showed that there is a severe negative effect on tourist arrivals defined by viruses. Moreover, there is a significant decisive effect of weather conditions on tourist arrivals. Nevertheless, it is necessary to move past Covid-19 pandemic discussions to yield more accurate tourism supply forecasts, while demand is already somehow low since the beginning of 2020. The primary significance is to develop a broader thinking about the impacts of CO2 emissions on the tourism escorted to official tourist websites.

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Air Pollution and Tourism: Evidence from G20 Countries

Cited by 32 publications

References 81 publications

The impact of air quality on international tourism arrivals: a global panel data analysis

The impact of air quality on international tourism arrivals: a global panel data analysis

Big Data for Big Insights: Quantifying the Adverse Effect of Air Pollution on the Tourism Industry in China

Sustainable Determinants That Affect Tourist Arrival Forecasting

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