Coupling Coordination and Influencing Factors among Tourism Carbon Emission, Tourism Economic and Tourism Innovation.

Yue Pan,Conghui Li,Jianpu Li,Gangmin Weng

doi:10.3390/ijerph18041601

Abstract

To discuss the coupling coordination relationship among tourism carbon emissions, economic development and regional innovation it is not only necessary to realize the green development of tourism economy, but also great significance for the tourism industry to take a low-carbon path. Taking the 30 provinces of China for example, this paper calculated the tourism carbon emission efficiency based on the super-efficiency Slacks based measure and Data envelope analyse (SBM-DEA) model from 2007 to 2017, and on this basis, defined a compound system that consists of tourism carbon emissions, tourism economic development and tourism regional innovation. Further, the coupling coordination degree model and dynamic degree model were used to explore its spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of balanced development, and this paper distinguished the core influencing factors by Geodetector model. The results showed that (1) during the study period, the tourism carbon emission efficiency showed a reciprocating trend of first rising and then falling, mainly due to the change of pure technical efficiency. (2) The coupling coordination degree developed towards a good trend, while there were significant differences among provinces, showing a gradient distribution pattern of decreasing from east to west. Additionally, (3) the core driving factors varied over time, however, in general, the influence from high to low were as follows: technological innovation, economic development, urbanization, environmental pollution control, and industrial structure. Finally, some policy recommendations were put forward to further promote the coupling coordination degree.

Highlights

With the increasingly severe global warming problem, energy conservation, emission reduction, and low-carbon has become the general consensus of sustainable economic development [1]
The key is to build an ideal model of high-quality economic development by reducing energy consumption, carbon emissions and ecological environment pressure [2]
The rapid growth of the tourism economy meant that carbon emissions have increased correspondingly

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Introduction

With the increasingly severe global warming problem, energy conservation, emission reduction, and low-carbon has become the general consensus of sustainable economic development [1]. The key is to build an ideal model of high-quality economic development by reducing energy consumption, carbon emissions and ecological environment pressure [2]. If no measures are taken, the global tourism carbon emissions will increase by 130% by 2035 [3,4,5]. The rapid growth of the tourism economy meant that carbon emissions have increased correspondingly. How to realize the low-carbon development of tourism while ensuring the sustainable growth of tourism economy is an important subject to be discussed urgently

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