The relationship between tourism, CO<sub>2</sub>emissions and economic growth: a case of Mediterranean countries

Ballı, Esra; Sigeze, Çiler; Manga, Müge; Birdir, Sevda Sahilli; Birdir, Kemal

doi:10.1080/10941665.2018.1557717

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“…Interestingly, they found that countries with higher levels of tourism suffer less GHG emissions in contrast to countries that have lesser or no component of tourism as their GDP. Balli et al (2019) also examined the relationship between tourism and CO 2 emissions, and their findings provide that tourism raises the level of CO 2 emissions. Through the qualitative study of Song et al (2018), research has established that there is a connection between tourism and economic globalization.…”

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Does globalization in Turkey induce increased energy consumption: insights into its environmental pros and cons

Etokakpan

Adedoyin

Yorucu

et al. 2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Globalization is the paradigm shift to a more integrated world economy broadly shaping economies and societies around the globe. The wave of globalization is much more eminent on its impact on increased energy demand, knowledge and technology transfer, trade, and financial capital flows. The present study focuses on Turkey, a fast-emerging economy that is no exception to the wave of globalization. This current study explores the dynamics between ecological footprints, energy consumption, and real income level for the case of Turkey in a carbon-income function while accounting for other covariate like globalization to avoid omitted variable bias. The study data spans from 1970 to 2017 on an annual frequency basis. The stationarity properties of the outlined variables were investigated. Subsequently, the equilibrium relationship between the variables is confirmed by the battery of recent robust estimation techniques. While to detect the causality of direction among the variables, the Modified Wald test causality test is utilized. This study reveals that an increase in energy consumption in Turkey reduces environmental pollution by a magnitude of 0.37% in the short run and 0.43% long run, while an increase in economic expansion dampens the quality of the environment 0.42% and 0.72% on both short and long-run basis. This is indicative given that Turkey is more energy conscious and energy efficient, while a positive statistically significant relationship is observed between real income level and ecological footprint and globalization index. The causality analysis also supports the growth-induced energy consumption hypothesis. The study further offers policy direction for the energy sector in Turkey in the face of global interconnectedness.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Does globalization in Turkey induce increased energy consumption: insights into its environmental pros and cons

Etokakpan

Adedoyin

Yorucu

et al. 2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…The outcome of his study reveals that tourism is completely linked to EG. Similarly, Balli et al (2019) found a direct linkage among tourism and ED. They studied the link among tourism, EG and CO2 emissions in Mediterranean countries and concluded that tourism is significantly linked with economic progress and CO2 emissions.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…As in some previous studies of Choong (2009), Moudatsou and Kyrkilis (2011), Abdouli and Hammami (2017), Phuyal and Sunuwar (2018), Mustafa (2019), and Dinh et al (2019), FDI was utilized as a determinant of EG. The CO2 emissions and ED nexus is also studied in many prior studies likeAzam et al 2016, Saudi et al (2017), Balli et al (2019), Azam (2019) used CO2 emissions in their studies. The current study also utilized population growth in order to check its effect on EG in selected ASEAN countries.…”

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Nexus Among Tourism, Environmental Degradation, Inward FDI and Economic Growth: Fresh Evidence from ASEAN Countries

Azam¹,

Noor²,

Nawaz³

2020

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This study aims to investigate the linkage among tourism, foreign direct investment, environmental degradation by CO2 emissions and economic growth in five countries from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over 1995–2017. The outcomes of pooled mean group (PMG) estimator reveal that FDI and international tourism arrivals have a significantly positive influence on economic growth both in the short-run and the long-run. The association between growth and CO2 emissions is found negative and significant. The Granger causality result reveals that there is bidirectional causality between FDI and growth, tourism and growth and FDI and tourism. A unidirectional causal link is found between CO2 emissions and growth, tourism and population and population and CO2 emissions. These findings suggest enhance more inward FDI, control environmental pollution, but also necessary to attract more tourists towards these countries, which in turn, generate revenue and boost up economic growth and development.JEL Classification Codes: F21; O13; O47; Z32

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“…As a source of income, many developed and developing countries around the globe consider tourism as a potential contributor to the national balance of payments, employment creation, and foreign exchange accumulation. A large number of studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] have highlighted the tourism-led growth hypothesis in the past two decades, especially in Asian countries, signifying a reduction in poverty, the creation of employment opportunities, and the promotion of investments in both the physical and human capital of the countries concerned [10].…”

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Asymmetric Impact of Institutional Quality on Tourism Inflows Among Selected Asian Pacific Countries

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From an idealistic viewpoint, the existence of the tourism industry in a country/region is a blessing because of its anticipated sustainable economic benefits. To turn this idealistic state into a realistic one, institutions need to play a pivotal role in optimizing the desired incentives. The present study examines the asymmetric role of institutional quality in stimulating tourism inflows (receipts and arrivals) in selected Asia Pacific countries involved in tourism. The previous literature has established that improving institutional quality attracts tourism inflows to a destination. However, the literature fails to identify the specific point (threshold level) above (below) which the relationship turns positive (negative). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that estimates the asymmetries in the nexus of institutions and tourism inflows, using robust nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approach. Our results show that the tourism inflow in Asian Pacific countries responds asymmetrically to any changes in institutional quality, and there is a single threshold of 7.52 points, where the impact of institutional quality reverses. We conclude that our findings are robust to the alternative measures of tourism inflows. The study offers useful policy inputs for devising short and long-run policies for the betterment of the institutional framework in the region by understanding the asymmetric impact of institutional quality on tourism inflow.

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The relationship between tourism, CO₂emissions and economic growth: a case of Mediterranean countries

Cited by 112 publications

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Does globalization in Turkey induce increased energy consumption: insights into its environmental pros and cons

Does globalization in Turkey induce increased energy consumption: insights into its environmental pros and cons

Nexus Among Tourism, Environmental Degradation, Inward FDI and Economic Growth: Fresh Evidence from ASEAN Countries

Asymmetric Impact of Institutional Quality on Tourism Inflows Among Selected Asian Pacific Countries

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The relationship between tourism, CO2emissions and economic growth: a case of Mediterranean countries

Cited by 112 publications

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Does globalization in Turkey induce increased energy consumption: insights into its environmental pros and cons

Does globalization in Turkey induce increased energy consumption: insights into its environmental pros and cons

Nexus Among Tourism, Environmental Degradation, Inward FDI and Economic Growth: Fresh Evidence from ASEAN Countries

Asymmetric Impact of Institutional Quality on Tourism Inflows Among Selected Asian Pacific Countries

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