Air Quality and Inbound Tourism in China

Zhou, Bo; Qu, Hailin; Du, Xingqiang; Yang, Bi; Liu, Fei

doi:10.3727/108354217x15143857878714

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“…ere are two parts to evaluate the energy consumption for tourism activities, which are transportation-related tourism activities and destination-related tourism activities, respectively [19,26], and both illustrate how the tourism affects the air environment. e negative effects on the air environment from tourism have been discussed in the areas worldwide, from developed countries such as Spain [27] to developing ones such as China [28] based on grounded theory, questionnaires, etc.…”

Section: E Effects Of Tourism On Air Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis and Prediction of the Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism and Air Environment: Yangtze River Economic Zone in China as Example

Geng

Wei

Zhang

et al. 2020

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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The results show that the comprehensive development degree (CDD) of the tourism-air environment system mainly maintains stable with fluctuation and the gap among different reaches in the Zone is declining; the coupling coordination degree’s (CCD) tendency in most regions remains similar as in the previous decade. The results illustrate that the method combing information entropy weight and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (IEW-TOPSIS), coupling coordination degree model (CCDM), and gray GM (1, 1) prediction model is effective in evaluating the coupling coordination relationship between the subsystems of tourism and air environment and in proposing specific countermeasures for tourism development and air environment governance.

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Section: E Effects Of Tourism On Air Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis and Prediction of the Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism and Air Environment: Yangtze River Economic Zone in China as Example

Geng

Wei

Zhang

et al. 2020

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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“…A set of studies have quantitatively revealed the harm of local air pollution to inbound tourism in China. The studies included Becken et al [24], Deng et al [26], Dong et al [27], Tang et al [17], Xu and Reed [28], Xu et al [29], Zhou et al [30], and Zhou et al [31] on different districts in Mainland China; Cheung and Law [32] and Law and Cheung [33] on the Hong Kong SAR of China; and Chen et al [34] on the Sun Moon Lake scenic area in the Taiwan Province of China.…”

Section: Impact Of Air Pollution In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the Impact of Air Pollution on China’s Inbound Tourism: A Gravity Model Approach

Dong

2020

Sustainability

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China’s inbound tourism grew very slowly in recent years. This study modelled China’s inbound tourism based on a gravity model with province-level inbound tourist arrivals data from 13 countries of origin between 2010 and 2016. It was found that air pollution in tourist destinations and origin regions both had significant negative impacts on China’s inbound tourism. On average, if the concentration of particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less (PM 2.5 ) in China and foreign countries increased by 1 μ g/m 3 , inbound tourist arrivals would decline by approximately 1.7% and 3.8%, respectively. The effect of pollution in destination regions is explained by the importance of clean air as a favored characteristic of tourist attractions. The effect of pollution in tourist origin countries is explained by more awareness of and concern about air pollution by potential tourists if they live in more polluted countries. Further analysis showed that the impact of air pollution in destination regions was larger for tourists coming from more polluted and Asian countries, and visiting less polluted and more popular destinations. This study has a clear policy implication: improving air quality can be considered as a straightforward and effective way to promote inbound tourism in China. If air quality in China can be substantially improved in the future, inbound tourist arrivals have the potential to rise by at least tens of millions of person-times.

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“…Although there were uncertainties associated with the remote sensing measurements (for example, affected by weather and the precision of the electrical instruments), the accuracy and reliability of the PM 2.5 grids data have been highly appreciated. In fact, both data sources have been widely utilized in previous research (e.g., [8,9,11,12,42]). The data from the two data sources were highly correlated.…”

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The Impacts of Different Air Pollutants on Domestic and Inbound Tourism in China

Dong

Wang

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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Previous studies have reported that air pollution negatively affects the tourism industry. This paper attempted to answer the following question: among different air pollutants, which one acts as the most adverse factor? The study was based on a sample of panel data covering 337 Chinese cities for the period between 2007 and 2016. Four pollutant indicators were inspected: PM 2 . 5 (particulate matter 2.5 micrometers or less in size), PM 10 (particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in size), SO 2 (sulfur dioxide), and NO 2 (nitrogen dioxide). It was found that PM 2 . 5 had a significantly negative impact on both domestic and inbound tourist arrivals. Regarding the other three pollutant indicators, except for the negative influence of NO 2 on inbound tourist arrivals, no statistically significant impact was found. This study suggests that tourism policy makers should primarily focus on PM 2 . 5 , when considering the nexus between air quality and tourism development. According to our estimates, the negative impact of PM 2 . 5 on tourism is substantial. If the PM 2 . 5 concentration in the ambient air increases by 1 μ g/m 3 (= 0.001 mg/m 3 ), domestic and inbound tourist arrivals will decline by 0.482% and 1.227%, respectively. These numbers imply an average reduction of 81,855 person-times in annual domestic tourist arrivals and 12,269 in inbound tourist arrivals in each city.

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Air Quality and Inbound Tourism in China

Cited by 35 publications

References 12 publications

Analysis and Prediction of the Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism and Air Environment: Yangtze River Economic Zone in China as Example

Analysis and Prediction of the Coupling Coordination Relationship between Tourism and Air Environment: Yangtze River Economic Zone in China as Example

Evaluating the Impact of Air Pollution on China’s Inbound Tourism: A Gravity Model Approach

The Impacts of Different Air Pollutants on Domestic and Inbound Tourism in China

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