Abstract
A low-carbon behaviour performance evaluation index system is designed by using a Delphi method in this study. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied to systematically measure the low-carbon behaviour performance of 32 scenic spots in Zhangjiajie, a world heritage site. The key driving factors that can significantly influence the low-carbon behaviour performance of the scenic spot are extracted by combining redundancy analysis (RDA). The results show that the scenic spots of Zhangjiajie performance well regarding low-carbon behaviour, however, there are still a great deal of room for improvement and promotion. Pressure from investors, the administration committees, tourists and local governments is the main driving factor for the low-carbon behaviour of scenic spot.
Highlights
In the 21st century, humankind is facing the great challenge of global environmental change and global sustainable development
Based on the internal motivation and external pressure in the implementation of low-carbon behaviours in Zhangjiajie scenic spots, this study develops scale factors that influence the low-carbon behaviour performance of scenic spots based on the tourism stakeholder theory [6,57,58,59,60,61] that can significantly influence the LCBP (Table 3)
The results show that the factor load of each measurement index on the measurement variable is highly significant and that the average extraction variance (AVE) value of all variables is greater than 0.5
Summary
In the 21st century, humankind is facing the great challenge of global environmental change and global sustainable development. In 2018, 12.10 billion trips were made worldwide (Source: World Travel and Tourism Council (https://www.wttc.org/)). Such a large scale of long-distance human activities inevitably causes severe energy consumption and environmental pollution [5]. How to promote the energy conservation and emissions reduction of the tourism industry achieve a low-carbon tourism industry is an important issue that academic circles should pay close attention to and that governments of various countries urgently need to solve
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