Tourism Eco-Efficiency Measurement, Characteristics, and Its Influence Factors in China

Li, Xiaoping; Fang, Yiping; Yang, Xueting; Zhu, Fu-biao

doi:10.3390/su9091634

Cited by 52 publications

(40 citation statements)

References 48 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Our results indicate that the growth of tourism sector is an important factor that can significantly control the CO 2 emission and promote the green economy in Xinjiang. Our findings are similar with the results of Qiu et al [31] stated that tourism is a significant contributor of carbon emission in China and the emission level increased continuously. The impact of tourism on environment and its intensity is different for various parts of China.…”

Section: Empirical Results and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Tourism and Environmental Pollution: Evidence from the One Belt One Road Provinces of Western China

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The rapid economic development of China and the industrial shift from its eastern to western provinces have resulted in significant negative impacts on the environment. Recently, tourism has emerged as an alternative for economic and environmental development, but it is a double-edged sword. Without the required measures to protect environment, the opportunity cost of tourism is environmental degradation. The western part of China holds a significant advantage for the development of travel and tourism (T&T), due to One Belt One Road (OBOR), unique ancient culture and spectacular variety of natural scenic spots. This region is among the less explored and less developed, but important, parts of China. Taking this point into consideration, this paper aims to examine the impact of tourism on the environmental pollution of five provinces located in the heart of OBOR over the period of 1991–2016. To explore this link, we used the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) approach and Gregory-Hansen test for robustness check. We applied the Zivot-Andrews unit root test to deal with structural breaks in data. Our results confirm a negative impact of tourism on environment for Ningxia, Qinghai, Gansu, and Shanxi. However, tourism improves the environmental quality of Xinjiang. The negative impact of energy consumption and GDP growth is significant than tourism. Our findings suggest that the relationship varies for different provinces in the same region depending on the specific provincial features and government policies. Furthermore, tourism development has great potential to improve the economic and environmental sustainability in these provinces.

show abstract

Section: Empirical Results and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Qiu et al [31] calculated and decomposed the tourism and CO 2 link for China and found that tourism is a significant contributor of carbon emission in China and the emission level increased continuously. Several factors including tourism are responsible for huge consumption, but transportation stands at the top.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and Environmental Pollution: Evidence from the One Belt One Road Provinces of Western China

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Companies complying with environmental regulations can foster technological progress; enhance the efficiency of their use of resources; minimize economic loss; improve their image; promote green process innovation; become more innovative; attract clients, investors, and potential partners; and improve relations with the government and other institutions. Additionally, they have a more consolidated business strategy focused on environmental care (Qiu, Fang, Yang, & Zhu, 2017; Qiu, Hu, & Wang, 2020; Zhang, Liang, Feng, Yuan, & Jiang, 2020). The purpose of complying with the law is to apply environmental strategies in order to ameliorate environmental damage.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Business‐oriented environmental regulation: Measurement and implications for environmental policy and business strategy from a sustainable development perspective

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Business‐oriented environmental regulation is expected to have a fundamental role in mitigating the adverse effects of human activity on the natural environment. However, its effectiveness and efficiency are not well established. A systematic literature review reveals validity and reliability problems in the measurement of business‐oriented environmental regulation. From a sustainable development perspective, we develop a theoretical framework that aims to enhance the measurement and assessment of this kind of regulation. Our theoretical framework proposes that the goals of business‐oriented environmental regulation must articulate a measurement system in a 3 × 3 matrix: three measurement levels (stringency, response, and outcome—in this cause–effect order) and three sustainability dimensions (environmental, social, and economic—in this constraint order). For each cell, we propose a combination of objective and subjective indicators. This theoretical framework expands existing approaches to business‐oriented environmental regulation measurement by integrating a sustainable development perspective into a measurement framework in a structured theory‐driven manner. Not only will this measurement system be useful for improving environmental policy, but it will also allow companies to improve their business strategy and come closer to complying with environmental regulations in order to effectively contribute to solutions for current environmental problems and help achieve a sustainable development.

show abstract

“…Hence, Tang et al (2014) have found that, given the considerable increases in total emissions during 1990-2012, transportation sector generates 80% of the emission and the aggregate economic contribution of tourism sector and tourist travels are significantly higher than compared to their contribution to total CO 2 emissions. When attempting to quantify the impact of direct and indirect CO 2 emissions associated to tourism activities in China, Meng et al (2016), Zhang and Gao (2016), Qiu et al (2017) consider that tourism and travel have contributed to both economic growth and increase of CO 2 emissions, but to a much lesser extent as compared to other industry sectors; in the same time, the authors point out that the results are mixed at regional level. However, researchers agree that in large cities, pollution has a negative effect on tourism development.…”

Section: The Environment-tourism Relationship: the Asymmetry Of Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Economic Growth and Environment Quality Contribute to Tourism Development in Eu Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

Bădulescu

Simuț

Meşter

et al. 2021

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The positive impact of the tourism industry on economic growth, revenues, infrastructure, employment, social inclusion and poverty reduction, although widely recognised, has been lately weighted against the appearance and exacerbation of several problems, such as: environmental footprint, increase of income inequality, cost increases related to solid waste collection, energy consumption, increased global CO2 emissions. On the other hand, the tourism sector is not just an active economic, societal, or environmental change agent; in turn, the tourism sector supports or is highly influenced by various factors, such as climate change, economic, political, or social factors. More recently, this industry has been highly impacted by the pandemic, technological developments and cultural trends. In this article we examined both the short and long-run relationship between tourism development and economic growth, CO2 emissions and energy consumption in European Union member states (EU27), by using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for panel data. The findings suggest that economic growth and energy consumption have a statistically significant impact on the tourism index both in the short and long-run, whereas CO2 emissions only have a significant impact upon the tourism index on the long run.

show abstract

Tourism Eco-Efficiency Measurement, Characteristics, and Its Influence Factors in China

Cited by 52 publications

References 48 publications

Tourism and Environmental Pollution: Evidence from the One Belt One Road Provinces of Western China

Tourism and Environmental Pollution: Evidence from the One Belt One Road Provinces of Western China

Business‐oriented environmental regulation: Measurement and implications for environmental policy and business strategy from a sustainable development perspective

Do Economic Growth and Environment Quality Contribute to Tourism Development in Eu Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About