Abstract
Numerous research studies have examined carbon emissions generated from tourism activities. However, the environmental impact of anthropogenic heat release has not attracted researchers' attention. We apply the tourism heat footprint method to assess the environmental impact of China's tourism activities. The results indicate that (1) China's tourism heat footprint increased from 0.99 × 103 w/km2 in 1994 to 7.53 × 103 w/km2 in 2018, with an average annual growth rate of 8.82%. (2) Particularly during high seasons, the tourism heat footprint increases sharply; tourism transportation accounts for the highest proportion of the tourism heat footprint, ranging from 36.50 to 69.07% from 1994 to 2018. (3) The rapid growth in arrivals and transportation-related changes have contributed to the rapid growth of the tourism heat footprint. Advances in science and technology, laws and regulations, environmental pollution constraints, and national macroeconomic policy have helped reduce the tourism heat footprint. Generally, tourism activities caused by a significant increase in income are the root cause of tourism heat footprint growth. (4) Finally, some suggestions, including cultivating a low-energy tourism culture, improving energy efficiency, implementing low-energy policies, and performing spatial-temporal monitoring, are proposed. This paper expands sustainable tourism's analytical research and enriches the tourism footprint family evaluation process.
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