TY - JOUR
T1 - A framework to account for the tourism carbon footprint at island destinations
AU - Sun, Ya Yen
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support from the Taiwan National Science Council under NSC 101-2410-H-390-030 is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments to the previous version of this paper.
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - Given concerns over greenhouse gases and the role of tourism in generating such environmental externality, a consistent carbon measurement framework is needed. This paper combines principles derived from production and consumption accounting measures to better allocate the responsibility for carbon emissions. Utilizing a boundary that includes domestic tourism expenditure, inbound tourism expenditure, and local spending associated with outbound travel, this paper (a) proposes a framework to measure the domestic total carbon effect and foreign-sourced effect, and (b) applies the analytical framework to Taiwan. The empirical study indicates that the carbon emissions for domestic tourism industries, international aviation, and imports accounted for 47%, 28% and 25% of the tourism carbon footprint. It is suggested that an island's dependence on both aviation and international trade leads to a larger share of emissions outside their geographic territory with respect to tourism development.
AB - Given concerns over greenhouse gases and the role of tourism in generating such environmental externality, a consistent carbon measurement framework is needed. This paper combines principles derived from production and consumption accounting measures to better allocate the responsibility for carbon emissions. Utilizing a boundary that includes domestic tourism expenditure, inbound tourism expenditure, and local spending associated with outbound travel, this paper (a) proposes a framework to measure the domestic total carbon effect and foreign-sourced effect, and (b) applies the analytical framework to Taiwan. The empirical study indicates that the carbon emissions for domestic tourism industries, international aviation, and imports accounted for 47%, 28% and 25% of the tourism carbon footprint. It is suggested that an island's dependence on both aviation and international trade leads to a larger share of emissions outside their geographic territory with respect to tourism development.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.03.015
DO - 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.03.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84899012995
VL - 45
SP - 16
EP - 27
JO - Tourism Management
JF - Tourism Management
SN - 0261-5177
ER -