Low-carbon tourism of small islands responding to climate change

Lee, Su Hsin; Wu, Shih Chieh; Li, Anna

doi:10.1080/16078055.2018.1496530

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“…The fact the Balearics are a world top holiday destination makes relevant this discussion as it can serve to give guidance to other Mediterranean territories with tourism-based economies facing similar CC threats. The high vulnerability of tourism to CC (Simpson et al 2008 ; Bujosa et al 2015 ; Factor CO 2 Ideas 2015 ; Lee et al 2018 ; González et al 2019 ; Arabadzhyan et al 2020 ) makes these regions even more fragile thus calling for an urgent change of their socioeconomic model. The analysis presented here also wants to serve as a wake-up call for initiating such a change.…”

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Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions

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Understanding the local effects of global warming-derived impacts is important to island systems due to their fragile environmental conditions. This is especially true when it comes to Mediterranean insular regions as they are climate change (CC) hotspots where adaptation and mitigation policy design is an urgent matter. Looking at 2030 as a time horizon for climate action and focusing on the Balearic Islands, this paper reviews the physical changes projected for the coming decades as a result of CC and analyses their impacts on regional environmental, economic and social variables. Mitigation and adaptation measures are also proposed based on the identified priority impacts. The fact the Balearics are a top world holiday destination allows the analysis to serve as a guide to other Mediterranean islands with tourism-based economies facing similar CC scenarios. Results show the projected rise of temperature and sea level; the reduction of the average precipitation and increase in evapotranspiration, the droughts and the increase in ocean acidification and deoxygenation are the main threats faced by the Balearics, this putting their economy at risk due to the high tourism’s vulnerability to CC. Mitigation and adaptation action on terrestrial and marine ecosystems, water resources, energy, infrastructure and urban planning, human health, economy, law and education is recommended. Sustainable mobility and waste managing are also viewed as important fields for mitigation action. Conclusions show that diversifying the current socioeconomic model is needed to increase the community and territory resilience. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1.

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“…Additionally, it is expected that tourism will grow on average about 43 million a year and reach 1.8 billion international arrivals by 2030 (OECD 2018) which means multiplying by seven the international arrivals compared to 1970. This is not merely due to the emergence of numerous new destinations, but also to the diversification of tourism with more types of travel, and to the importance of an ever more personalized experience (Lee et al 2018). The rapid growth of tourism via multiplier effects boosts the additional revenues generated by tourism spending, coupled with changes in household spending, and appears to be an induced effect of tourism on the economy (Khan et al 1990Brida et al 2008, causing a positive effect on the increase of the long-run economic growth (Chou 2013).…”

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“…Sustainability and competitiveness also depend on how tourism responds to climate change (Scott 2011, Weaver 2011. In fact, tourism depends on a wide range of infrastructure services with numerous environmental and ecological impacts (Gössling 2002, Gössling et al 2002, Gössling et al 2015, Lee et al 2018.…”

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The dynamic effects of globalization process in analysing N-shaped tourism led growth hypothesis

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Driha

Sinha³

2020

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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This paper validates the tourism-led growth hypothesis for a panel of selected OECD countries, including the effects of per capita CO 2 , globalization and energy use during the period 1994-2014. The long-term relationship between economic growth and the above-mentioned variables is confirmed by applying unit root tests and cointegration approaches. The Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) methodology confirms a N-shaped relationship between international tourism and per capita economic growth. Globalization does not appear to be very effective in the short run for promoting economic growth; its impact on growth is determined through a finite-lag distribution, as the optimal effect can only be achieved in the long term. A direct relationship is detected between economic growth, energy use and globalization. The recommendation is to reshape regulatory frameworks with a clearer focus on promoting international tourism and more efficient energy use as a means of enhancing sustainable economic growth in developed countries. The empirical results reveal that fossil fuels account for a large part of the energy mix, so policy makers should consider reinforcing the promotion of clean energy sources and the use of more efficient processes.

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“…Though there is no universal definition of LCT, the key prominence is that energy consumption and CO 2 emissions initiated by the actions, goods and services of tourism are minimized (Chiesa & Gautam, 2009;Filimonau et al, 2011). In recent years, a few of previous studies highlighted the important role of low-carbon tourism in the literature review (Lee et al, 2018;Puška et al, 2019;Thongdejsri & Nitivattananon, 2019;Zhang, 2017;. He et al (2021) gave a framework for conceptualizing the emerging sustainable community-based tourism using a SWARA (step-wise weight assessment ratio analysis)-MULTIMOORA (multi-objective optimization based on ratio analysis with full multiplicative form) methodology.…”

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Low-carbon tourism strategy evaluation and selection using interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy additive ratio assessment approach based on similarity measures

Mishra

Chandel

Saeidi

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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Recently, the assessment and selection of most suitable low-carbon tourism strategy has gained an extensive consideration from sustainable perspectives. Owing to participation of multiple qualitative and quantitative attributes, the low-carbon tourism strategy (LCTS) selection process can be considered as multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. As uncertainty is usually occurred in LCTSs evaluation, the theory of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) has been established as more flexible and efficient tool to model the uncertain decision-making problems. The idea of the present study is to develop an extended method using additive ratio assessment (ARAS) framework and similarity measures in a way to find an effective solution to the decision-making problems using IVIFSs. The bases of the proposed method are the IVIFSs operators, some modifications in the traditional ARAS framework and a calculation procedure of the weights of the criteria. To calculate criterion weight, new similarity measures for IVIFSs are developed aiming at the achievement of more realistic weights. Also, a comparison is demonstrated to the currently used similarity measures in order to show the efficiency of the developed approach. To confirm that the developed IVIF-ARAS approach can be successfully employed to practical decision-making problems, a case study of LCTS selection problem is considered. The final results from the developed approach and the extant models are compared for the validation of the proposed approach in this study.

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Low-carbon tourism of small islands responding to climate change

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions

Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions

The dynamic effects of globalization process in analysing N-shaped tourism led growth hypothesis

Low-carbon tourism strategy evaluation and selection using interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy additive ratio assessment approach based on similarity measures

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