Low-carbon Tourism Research Articles

Study on the Comprehensive Assessment of High-Quality Development Performance of Low Carbon Tourism in China's Rizhao City Empowered by New Quality Productivity

With the rapid development of China's urban economy, the new quality productivity empowerment to promote the high-quality development of tourism in Rizhao City has become a new trend, and the vigorous development of tourism has gradually become a new growth point under the influence of a series of policies on low-carbon tourism in Shandong Province. In order to effectively assess the performance of new quality productivity empowerment to promote the high-quality development of low-carbon tourism in Rizhao City, this paper utilizes the basic data of Rizhao City, China, for the period of 2013-2022, and comprehensively assesses the status of the high-quality development performance of low-carbon tourism in Rizhao City by constructing the spatial ecological niche integrated assessment model, and it is found that: the performance of the high-quality development of low-carbon tourism in the city of Rizhao City, China, which is empowered by the new quality productivity, has shown a There are some differences in the assessment results of the three models, the absolute ecological niche suitability model has the largest assessment result, the relative ecological niche suitability model has the smallest assessment result, and the assessment result of the spatial ecological niche suitability model is located in between the assessment results of the other two models with the effect of equalization, and the assessment result of the spatial ecological niche suitability model shows that the high-quality development performance of the target city's low-carbon tourism The assessment result in 2013 is 0.7783, and the quality level of low-carbon tourism high-quality development performance is III, and the assessment result in 2022 rises to 0.8972, and the quality level of low-carbon tourism high-quality development performance is II, which has already reached the edge of I. In terms of the degree of influence of the evaluation indicators, the insufficient strength of new quality productivity empowerment in Rizhao City, China, affects the performance of low-carbon tourism high-quality development, and the second most influential of the other guideline level indicators on the assessment results is the weak effect category.

Study on the Comprehensive Assessment and its Application of Environmental Pollution Governance Effect of Low-carbon Tourism Emissions from Energy Consumption in Jiangsu Province

Jiangsu Province is the first largest province in China for low-carbon tourism, set to explore the comprehensive assessment method of the effect of low-carbon tourism environmental pollution governance in Jiangsu Province and to promote the effective way of continuous improvement of low-carbon tourism in Jiangsu. This paper takes the effect of low-carbon tourism environmental pollution governance in Jiangsu Province as an overall comprehensive assessment object and utilizes the spatial ecological niche model as well as the basic statistical data of Jiangsu Province to carry out a comprehensive assessment study on the effect of low-carbon tourism environmental pollution governance in Jiangsu Province from 2013 to 2021. It is found that the comprehensive assessment coefficient of low-carbon tourism in Jiangsu Province rises from 0.8770 in 2013, with the environmental pollution governance effect of low-carbon tourism ranked at level II, to 0.9401 in 2021, with the corresponding environmental pollution governance effect of low-carbon tourism ranked at level I, which fully reflects the good trend of continuous growth of the environmental pollution governance effect of low-carbon tourism in Jiangsu Province. According to the specific assessment results, this paper further puts forward policy recommendations to promote the continuous improvement of the environmental pollution governance effect of low-carbon tourism in Jiangsu Province.

Penguatan Kelembagaan Lokal dan Konservasi Ekologi Mangrove Jangkaran Untuk Pariwisata Berkelanjutan

This community service focuses on strengthening local institutions, preserving mangrove ecology and increasing tourist visits. Activities are carried out through collective problem solving, training and mentoring. This community service has succeeded in encouraging and implementing pro-sustainable tourism policies. Strengthening informal institutions, especially developing joint agreements, resolving disputes/conflicts, cooperation, commitment and new ideas, namely low carbon tourism. This activity also ensures that all sustainable tourism ideas are prepared, included and regulated in the review and revision of the Jangkaran Village Tourism Master Plan (RIPPARKAL). Ripparkal is the foundation for mangrove ecology and ecosystem conservation through village regulations as formal institutional strengthening. In this way, the institution is legal and binding, so that the government provides the village budget and infrastructure to carry it out. Apart from that, focusing on ecological conservation can encourage carbon trading from communities to emitters as an alternative financing mechanism in line with Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021. However, this dedication is too early to evaluate the achievement of ecological and environmental improvements, as well as overcoming decline. visits for short periods of service. This still requires assistance and capacity strengthening to fulfill the necessary requirements and complementary requirements to enter the next carbon trading system.

Resetting sustainable tourism policy amid climate change: the role of green perceived value, trust, satisfaction, and purchase intention from civil servants’ perspective

ABSTRACT Front-line government civil servants play a pivotal role in purchasing green tourism products, thereby driving the low-carbon tourism market. However, limited research has focused on the role of government agencies in reducing carbon emissions, and civil servants may have varying perceptions of these legal obligations. This study applies the Cognitive-Affective-Conative theory to examine the relationships among green perceived value, trust, and satisfaction to predict civil servants' intentions. The primary goal is to assess the government's willingness to readjust subsidy tourism policies from the perspectives of Taiwan's civil servants. Using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) method to analyze 531 valid questionnaires, the study reveals the need to develop or adjust policies that combat carbon emissions and promote sustainable practices. These findings offer valuable insights for shaping governmental policies that foster green business ventures, enhance economic diversification, and advance sustainable tourism initiatives.

Developing sustainable development indicators for low-carbon tourism itinerary

ABSTRACT The tourism industry has commenced the promotion of low-carbon tourism to combat climate change and reduce carbon emissions. This study focused on low-carbon tourism itinerary planning and sustainable development indicators, which are based on the theoretical perspective of tourism experience value. These insights were gained through interviews with government tourism bureau managers, academic researchers and managers of industry sustainable tourism development associations. The results indicate that among the dimensions of sustainable development indicators, ‘sustainable management mechanism’ and ‘environmental education and training’ had the most significant impact. The order of importance in the attributes was ‘green energy promotion’, ‘low-carbon production and marketing mechanism’, ‘asset protection monitoring’ and ‘carbon reduction education’. This indicates that these attributes play a crucial role in ensuring sustainability and environmental protection. This study thus provides a valuable integrated tool for sustainable development and low-carbon tourism itinerary management.

Interconnected Eco-Consciousness: Gen Z Travelers’ Intentions toward Low-Carbon Transportation and Hotels

Generation Z (Gen Z) is widely acknowledged for their heightened eco-consciousness. Nevertheless, a notable research gap persists in the empirical examination of eco-friendly preferences within this demographic group, particularly concerning low-carbon transportation and hotel selections. Utilizing structural equation modeling and data collected from 357 Gen Z travelers, this study investigates the interconnected factors influencing Gen Z travelers’ intentions toward adopting low-carbon transportation and making low-carbon hotel choices based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The results indicate that perceived value and environmental concern exert significant influence on the formation of attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control among Gen Z travelers. As a result, these psychosocial constructs make a substantial contribution to the intention of Gen Z travelers of adopting low-carbon tourism behaviors. Additionally, the study uncovers a positive correlation between the propensity to use low-carbon transportation and the inclination to choose low-carbon hotels for accommodation. These findings underscore the interconnected facets of Gen Z’s preferences for low-carbon tourism, thereby indicating the prospect for collaborative efforts to bolster sustainability within the tourism industry.

Analyzing energy utilization influence on tourism and low-carbon development: Insights from Xianju National Park in China

National parks are rare natural resources that provide refuges for wildlife, harmonious ecology, and leisure activities. These protected areas, which include a variety of ecosystems, habitats for wildlife, and geological wonders, have been set aside to preserve and highlight the beauty of the natural world. Under the goals of carbon neutrality of all countries in the world, it is urgently need to pay attention to the relationship between climate change and protected natural resources. This study uses the Xianju pilot national park as an example to identify key activities that increase carbon absorptions and reduce carbon emissions, calculate the carbon sink of national park construction, and discuss whether tourism industry can achieve low carbon or even negative emissions based on the analysis of low-carbon measures of national parks. Using the Mento-Carlo method, we find that the total carbon sink in Xianju National Park is around 70832–97930 tons CO2, which accounts for about 10 % of Xianju County's total carbon emissions. This illustrates that the development of tourism has indeed brought benefits to the low carbon development of Xianju National Park. From the perspective of stakeholders, this paper also summarizes the stakeholders, relevant actions and policy tools for Xianju National Park to carry out low-carbon tourism. Finally, compared with the development experience of national parks in France and the United States, this paper gives policy suggestions on low-carbon development of Xianju National Park, and proposes to mobilize stakeholders to participate in low-carbon tourism and low-carbon governance.

Developing Low Carbon Tourism in Mok Cham Pae Subdistrict, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand

Developing Low Carbon Tourism in Mok Cham Pae Subdistrict, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand

Unraveling the Complex Relationships between Environmental Drivers and low-carbon tourism behaviors: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach in Guizhou Province, China

Unraveling the Complex Relationships between Environmental Drivers and low-carbon tourism behaviors: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach in Guizhou Province, China

Coupling and Coordination between Tourism, the Environment and Carbon Emissions in the Tibetan Plateau

Studying the relationships among tourism, the environment and carbon emissions is key to understanding how tourism activity affects the sustainable development of tourism in the Tibetan Plateau. Using Lhasa, Tibet, as a case study, the coupling and coordination relationships among the three systems were analysed to explore the impact of tourism behaviour on sustainable tourism development. Utilising panel data from 2010 to 2020, the carbon emissions of tourism activities were calculated using a bottom-up approach. The coupling coordination model was employed to examine the interrelationship of the economy, the ecological environment and carbon emissions. Additionally, the Tapio model was utilised to further analyse the dependency relationship between economic development and carbon emissions. This assessment of the sustainability of Lhasa’s tourism industry revealed that (1) the economy, the environment and carbon emissions are indeed closely intertwined with sustainable development and that (2) there has been a significant increase in the coupling coordination among the economy, the environment and carbon emissions from 2010 to 2020, coupled with a gradual decrease in economic dependency on carbon emissions. Despite providing favourable conditions for sustainable development, there remains considerable disparity among the three subsystems, with relatively low overall coordination. Accordingly, some practical low-carbon tourism policies are recommended to guide tourism practices and promote long-term sustainability.

Sustainable consumption in tourism: perceptions of low-carbon holidays in island destinations – a cluster analysis approach

ABSTRACT Although the tourism sector has made efforts to promote low-carbon tourism as one of the ways to address the challenge of climate change, understanding of the current low-carbon tourist segments is still limited and fragmented. This study analyzes low-carbon tourist segments in Thailand's island destinations using cluster analysis, identifying three distinct types: Low-carbon Supporters, Pleasure Seekers, and Destination Protectors, each varying in their perceived importance of low-carbon tourism dimensions. Using Important-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA), the research highlights key items significant to each cluster. It contributes theoretically and offers practical marketing strategies to promote low-carbon destinations effectively to these segments.

Implications of the Role of Green Jobs in the Development of Low-Carbon Tourism

Afterward, the tourism sector contributes to environmental impact. Accelerating the tourism sector’s role to achieve net zero carbon tourism activities for a higher quality experience is indispensable. Instead, there is currently a change in tourism trends that focus on developing sustainable tourism and implementing low-carbon tourism within sustainable development resulting in green job opportunities that positively impact economics, socio-cultural, environment, and communities. Based on several previous studies, not much research has been found on the implications of the role of green jobs in developing the tourism sector in Indonesia. Qualitative literature methods such as journals, books, study reports, statistical reports, and policy and regulations, and the acquisition of data and information are analyzed using the VRIO (value, rarity, imitability, and organization) approach. Commence by identifying the issue related to low-carbon tourism and their impact on the value creation of green jobs as an enabler to support sustainable tourism, resource capacity, and competitiveness, and the results of the VRIO analysis to obtain strategic implications. Indonesia's low-carbon tourism sector has four key elements that can provide a sustainable competitive advantage: environmental innovation, investment in an environmentally friendly tourism industry, human resource capacity, and green skills.

Assessment of low-carbon tourism development from multi-aspect analysis: a case study of the Yellow River Basin, China

Climate change has become an unavoidable problem in achieving sustainable development. As one of the major industries worldwide, tourism can make a significant contribution to mitigating climate change. The main objective of the paper is to assess the development level of low-carbon tourism from multi-aspect, using the Yellow River Basin as an example. Firstly, this study quantified tourism carbon dioxide emissions and tourism economy, and analyzed their evolution characteristics. The interaction and coordination degree between tourism carbon dioxide emissions and tourism economy were then analyzed using the improved coupling coordination degree model. Finally, this study analyzed the change in total factor productivity of low-carbon tourism by calculating the Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index. The results showed that: (1) the tourism industry in the Yellow River Basin has the characteristics of the initial environmental Kuznets curve. (2) There was a strong interaction between tourism carbon dioxide emissions and tourism economy, which was manifested as mutual promotion. (3) The total factor productivity of low-carbon tourism was increasing. Based on the above results, it could be concluded that the development level of low-carbon tourism in the Yellow River Basin has been continuously improved from 2000 to 2019, but it is still in the early development stage with the continuous growth of carbon dioxide emissions.

A Personalized Recommendation Method for Low-carbon Tourism Routes Based on User Feature Mining

A Personalized Recommendation Method for Low-carbon Tourism Routes Based on User Feature Mining

The Problems and Countermeasures of the Development of China's Green Tourism Industry under the Dual Carbon Background

Under the goal of achieving "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality", green and low-carbon transformation is one of the important directions for the high-quality development of the tourism industry. A low-carbon economy can promote the green development of the tourism industry, stimulate national demand for green tourism, and force tourism enterprises to upgrade their products. The deep integration and development of low-carbon economy and tourism industry is an inevitable choice of the times. China should take green and low-carbon consumption as the breakthrough point, integrate the concept of low-carbon economic development, achieve green development of tourism industry, and innovate the path of green and low-carbon development of China's tourism industry.

Characteristics and drivers of changes in the carbon footprint of urban tourism in the post-COVID-19 era: A case study of Xi'an

COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures provide valuable social experimental opportunities for exploring the factors that affect changes in the urban tourism carbon footprint (TCFu). The study uses the carbon emission coefficient and energy consumption coefficient to calculate the TCFu of the transport, accommodation, catering, and recreational activity sectors, taking Xi'an from 2014 to 2020 as a case study. It analyzes the characteristics of the carbon footprint changes and their drivers in each sector. The results show that compared to before the outbreak of the pandemic, in the period afterwards, the TCFu decreased by 60.46%. The carbon footprint of tourism transport decreased the most. Carbon intensity has a significant inhibitory effect on the TCFu growth, and as drivers, the consumption level and population size shifted from promoting to inhibiting the TCFu. It emphasizes the importance of developing low-carbon tourism transportation to reduce the TCFu, providing a scientific basis for promoting the green transformation of urban tourism.

Research on the Development of Green Hotels in the Context of Low Carbon Tourism

With the continuous implementation of national measures related to carbon neutrality strategy, the concept of a low-carbon economy has been deeply rooted in people’s hearts. Low-carbon tourism has gradually become an inevitable trend, and the tourism industry is also undergoing orderly transformation and upgrading. To promote the sustainable development of the tourism industry, the tourism and hotel industry should also shift towards a low-carbon and green model. Hotel activities can easily bring related environmental issues, such as energy consumption, garbage generation, ecological pollution, etc. Therefore, building a green hotel will bring huge social and economic benefits to the low-carbon tourism industry. This article will address the above issues and take a low-carbon economy as the starting point, proposing sustainable development strategies and suggestions for green hotels from both the internal and external environment of the hotel, creating a low-carbon management atmosphere, and promoting the low-carbon operation of the green hotel industry.

Low-carbon strategy and tourism development

ABSTRACT The ability of a low-carbon strategy to promote tourism development is critical to achieving economic development and environmental protection. Taking China's low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy as a quasi-natural experiment, this study evaluates the low-carbon strategy's effect on tourism development by adopting the difference-in-difference method with 275 cities'panel data from 2002 to 2019. The results verify that tourism has significantly developed, driven by the LCCP policy, and this finding is robust even after multiple tests. Mechanism and heterogeneity analyses show that LCCP policy drives tourism development by improving air quality, promoting industrial structure upgrading, and enhancing green technology innovation. Additionally, the pilot construction has a positive spatial spillover impact on the tourism industry in surrounding cities, reflecting the demonstration effect of the pilot city on the neighbouring cities.

Rethinking sustainable substitution between domestic and international tourism: a policy thought experiment

ABSTRACT The role of domestic tourism as a substitute for international tourism has not received adequate attention in the literature. However, the potential for substitution has become particularly important in the COVID-19 pandemic context which has significantly impacted travel flows as well as the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Drawing upon data on major tourism destinations and generating markets, a tourism policy thought experiment is conducted to explore the substitutability of domestic for international tourism in selected countries in light of COVID-19 and other situations, such as the climate crisis and the urgent need for low carbon tourism. The analysis and discussion highlight the complexities in achieving sustainable substitution in rescaling international mobilities to domestic. It is argued that without careful changes to overall tourism provision and consumption behaviours in the international-domestic tourism division, a (partial) shift may provide short gains but is likely to fail in the long term. The paper concludes with a critical analysis of contemporary debates on COVID-19 related tourism transformation in relation to substitution between domestic and international tourism and sustainable tourism futures.

The New Mode of Hotel Management under the Background of Low-carbon Economy

Tourism as the pillar industry of the tertiary industry with environmental protection and high yield of the characteristics of the market praise and recognition, with the continuous expansion of China's tourism industry scale, the corresponding series of ancillary industries with the development. Hotel as the main tourism subsidiary industry with the development of the tourism industry scale growing, and under the background of resource-conserving society gradually formed a low carbon tourism perspective, the corresponding hotel need in the low tourism perspective to build a new management mode, clear the prospect of low carbon tourism development and present situation, and put forward new requirements for hotel management, combined with the status of the current tourism management, found the problems and put forward the corresponding countermeasures, to ensure that the hotel management mode conforms to the low carbon tourism perspective of industry demand.