Managing tourism emissions through optimizing the tourism demand mix: Concept and analysis

Ya Yen Sun, Pei Chun Lin, James Higham

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摘要

Carbon mitigation strategies are an urgent and overdue tourism industry imperative. The tourism response to climate action has been to engage businesses in technology adoption, and to encourage more sustainable visitor behaviour. These strategies however are insufficient to mitigate the soaring carbon footprint of tourism. Building upon the concepts of optimization and eco-efficiency, we put forward a novel carbon mitigation approach, which seeks to pro-actively determine, foster, and develop a long-term tourist market portfolio. This can be achieved through intervening and reconfiguring the demand mix with the fundamental aim of promoting low carbon travel markets. The concept and the analytical framework that quantitatively inform optimization of the desired market mix are presented. Combining the “de-growth” and “optimization” strategies, it is demonstrated that in the case study of Taiwan, great potential exists to reduce emissions and sustain economic yields. The implications for tourism destination managers and wider industry stakeholders are discussed.

原文English
文章編號104161
期刊Tourism Management
81
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2020 12月

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 發展
  • 運輸
  • 旅遊、休閒和酒店管理
  • 策略與管理

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