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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 26, Pages 33781-33793Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-12567-9
Keywords
Tourism development; Economic development; Environment; Environmental impact assessments; Sustainable development; Panel VAR
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Tourism development is essential for economic growth but can lead to environmental degradation. The challenge lies in balancing economic benefits with environmental protection, particularly in the face of increasing CO2 emissions. Research on the relationship between tourism, economic growth, and CO2 emissions is crucial for sustainable development in China.
Tourism development is recognised as an essential tool in promoting economic growth; however, it may also contribute to environmental degradation. Increased pressure for reducing CO2 emissions poses new challenges to policy-makers who try to promote economic growth and environmental protection in tandem. Since 2010, 19 scenic areas in China have been declared as low-carbon tourism demonstration zones. It follows that investigating whether CO2 emissions originating in the tourism industry could, in fact, compromise sustainable development in China becomes an essential area of study. Whilst this is a key concern to society, there are only a limited number of studies that analyse the environmental impact of tourism and the validity of the tourism-led-growth hypothesis. This study considers both domestic and international tourism and explicitly tests the relationship among tourism development, economic growth and CO2 emissions in China, employing a panel vector autoregressive model and utilising regional data between 2006 and 2017. Results show that the development of either international or domestic tourism contributes to economic growth, however, at the expense of the environment.
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