Carbon Dioxide Emission Measurement and Its Spatiotemporal Evolution of Tourism Industry in Heilongjiang Province, China

Abstract

This study analyses the composition and evolution of carbon dioxide emissions from the tourism industry in Heilongjiang Province and its 12 regions by the tourism consumption stripping coefficient method and calculates the decoupling relationship between the carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth of tourism from 2010 to 2019. The empirical results are as follows. (1) From 2010 to 2019, carbon dioxide emissions from Heilongjiang Province’s tourism industry and its subsector increased steadily, of which the tourism industry accounted for a relatively large amount of carbon dioxide emissions in “Transport, Storage, and Post.” (2) Time series analysis reveals that the carbon dioxide emissions of tourism basically show an increasing trend and there are still multiple decoupling relationships with economic growth. Expansive decoupling and weak decoupling have occurred more frequently. (3) Spatial analysis reveals that the carbon dioxide emissions of the regional tourism industry show a fluctuating upward trend. The tourism industry in Harbin has significantly higher carbon dioxide emissions than in other regions. In addition, this study provides feasible suggestions and countermeasures for low-carbon tourism development in Heilongjiang Province. The findings are considered useful in future planning of energy conservation and emission reduction in Heilongjiang Province and the regional tourism industry.

Measurement and Impactors of Tourism Carbon Dioxide Emission Efficiency in China

“…In this study, the TCDEE of Heilongjiang averaged 0.9007 in the sample period, which is close to the optimal frontier. erefore, our conclusion that Heilongjiang had a relatively high TCEDD can be strongly supported by Tang and Huang's results [34].…”

“…This effort drives the low-carbon development of tourism. Taking Heilongjiang as an example, Tang and Huang [ 34 ] studied the detachment between carbon dioxide emission and tourism economy growth in 2019 and found that the detachment is basically benign. Thus, they concluded that energy conservation and emission reduction measures have achieved certain effects on promoting the tourism development in Heilongjiang.…”