Abstract
Tourism carbon emission is one of the important factors affecting ecological environment. In order to clarify the trend and changing characteristics of tourism carbon emissions, academia has carried out quantitative research on tourism carbon footprint. Based on the theory of carbon footprint, this study analyzes the tourism carbon emissions in Sichuan Province from 2004 to 2018 through three indexes: tourism carbon footprint, carbon carrying capacity and net carbon footprint. The results show that the carbon footprint of tourism in Sichuan Province shows an increasing trend. During the fifteen years, it increases by 20.2 times from 427.59 million tons to 9505.95 million tons. The carbon carrying capacity of tourism is increasing year by year except in 2008. Sichuan Province was in a carbon surplus before 2012. The carbon carrying capacity is greater than the carbon footprint, which is friendly to the ecological environment. After 2012, Sichuan Province is in a state of carbon deficit, and the ecological pressure is increasing, which is not conducive to human survival.
Highlights
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industrial sectors in the world, and it is a sector with more carbon emissions in the senior industry
The results show that the tourism carbon carrying capacity increased from 16.2659 million tons in 2004 to 63.89967 million tons in 2018, which is a big increase
The results show that the net carbon footprint of Sichuan province is negative from 2004 to 2012, and it is in the state of carbon surplus (Figure 6)
Summary
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industrial sectors in the world, and it is a sector with more carbon emissions in the senior industry. Human tourism produces about 5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, which has a great impact on global warming (Scott et al, 2008) For the research on the measurement of tourism carbon footprint, scholars at domestic and abroad think that there are two methods: top-down and bottom-up The former is carried out from top to bottom by using statistical data of energy consumption at the national level. It shows that different tourism choices in the transport, accommodation, attractiveness and activity subsectors require different amounts of energy and how to make up the total energy bill for international and domestic tourists in New Zealand. It grasps the influence degree of tourism carbon footprint on ecological environment in Sichuan Province, and provides the basis for the government to formulate carbon emission reduction measures in the future
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