PMID- 35162847
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220228
LR  - 20220228
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 3
DP  - 2022 Feb 5
TI  - The Carbon Emission Reduction Effect of Tourism Economy and Its Formation 
      Mechanism: An Empirical Study of China's 92 Tourism-Dependent Cities.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph19031824 [doi]
LID - 1824
AB  - The tourism economy is regarded as an effective way to realize regional 
      sustainable development. Hence, it is of great significance to explore whether 
      and how tourism economy can alleviate regional carbon emission intensity. To this 
      end, a structural equation model (SEM) reflecting the multiple pathways of the 
      carbon emission reduction effect of tourism economy was constructed based on 92 
      tourism-dependent cities in China, and the existence and formation mechanism of 
      the carbon emission reduction effect of tourism economy were empirically tested. 
      The main findings are as follows: (1) The tourism economy has a significant 
      carbon emission reduction effect in China. Although the direct impact of tourism 
      economy on carbon emission intensity is significantly positive, the indirect 
      impact is significantly negative and stronger than the direct impact. (2) The 
      carbon emission reduction effect of tourism economy presents multiple pathways 
      characteristics. There are single intermediary pathways such as Tourism Economy --> 
      Environmental Regulation --> Carbon Emission Intensity, Tourism Economy --> 
      Opening-Up --> Carbon Emission Intensity, and dual intermediary pathways such as 
      Tourism Economy --> Opening-Up --> Industrial Development --> Carbon Emission 
      Intensity, Tourism Economy --> Opening-Up --> Innovation Capacity --> Carbon Emission 
      Intensity. (3) The formation mechanism of the carbon emission reduction effect of 
      tourism economy presents obvious spatial heterogeneity.
FAU - Tong, Yun
AU  - Tong Y
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9606-1606
AD  - School of Tourism, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
FAU - Zhang, Rui
AU  - Zhang R
AD  - School of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
FAU - He, Biao
AU  - He B
AD  - School of Tourism, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
AD  - Hainan Province Holistic Tourism Research Base, Haikou 570228, China.
AD  - Academician Desheng Wu Station of Hainan Province, Haikou 570228, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20220205
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
RN  - 142M471B3J (Carbon Dioxide)
RN  - 7440-44-0 (Carbon)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Carbon/analysis
MH  - Carbon Dioxide/analysis
MH  - China
MH  - Cities
MH  - *Economic Development
MH  - Tourism
PMC - PMC8835332
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - carbon emission intensity
OT  - multiple pathways
OT  - structural equation model
OT  - tourism economy
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/02/16 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/01 06:00
PMCR- 2022/02/05
CRDT- 2022/02/15 01:15
PHST- 2021/12/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/01/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/02/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/02/15 01:15 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/02/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/01 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/02/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph19031824 [pii]
AID - ijerph-19-01824 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph19031824 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 5;19(3):1824. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph19031824.