Estimation of tourism carbon footprint and carbon capacity

Abstract

Abstract The calculation of tourism carbon footprint is of great significance to low-carbon tourism. This study estimates the tourism carbon footprint in Heilongjiang Province from 2009 to 2018 by using tourism carbon footprint and tourism carbon capacity models. The results show that the total tourism carbon footprint of Heilongjiang Province increased fast to 2.97 times from 5.926million tons in 2009 to 21.13million tons in 2018, while its per capita tourism carbon footprint increased from 53.9 kg to 116.0 kg. During the same period, tourism carbon capacity continued to grow steadily from 15.18billion tons to 21.96billion tons, and the growth rate was 50% of the growth rate of tourism carbon footprint. Tourism carbon emissions can be absorbed by environmental capacity, and the risk of carbon deficit is relatively small.