Exploring the Effects of Tourism Development on Air Pollution: Evidence from the Panel Smooth Transition Regression Model

Zhang, Jun; Lu, Youhai

doi:10.3390/ijerph19148442

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“…The obtained results constitute a significant contribution to the knowledge about the factors influencing students' career perceptions in T&H [82,84,85,92], offering a new perspective on understanding the employment aspirations in tourism through the prism of very timely topics, namely the problem of air pollution and its negative consequences increasingly experienced by societies around the world and seriously threatening tourism development, which is strongly dependent on environmental quality. This paper draws attention to the fact that problems arising from air pollution can affect residents [93] and tourists visiting a particular destination [6,14,16] but may also influence its labour market, decreasing its attractiveness in the eyes of future qualified workforce.…”

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“…As is pointed out, tourism can be a source of the same types of pollution as any other industry, including emissions of air pollution, noise, litter, release of industrial and municipal sewage, chemicals, and even architectural/visual pollution [94,96,97]. There are also voices that emissions of air pollution induced by tourism are greater than from other service sectors [6]. Therefore, tourism development may damage the natural environment, and the results of previous studies revealed that there is a link between the intensity of tourist traffic and the level of air pollution with PM 10 [15].…”

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“…The features of the current civilization such as permanent stress, dramatically fast speed of life, and mental and physical exhaustion create a deep need for rest and taking advantage of contact with nature and climatic values [4]. All these aspects may contribute to increasing numbers of tourist arrivals for leisure purposes [5] where the tourist experience may be enhanced by clean air at the destination [6]. Likewise, exposure to air pollution in the visited destination may lead to serious health problems and could be a serious threat, decreasing the quality of that experience.…”

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Air Pollution and Its Potential Consequences for Tourism and Career Development from Students’ Perspective: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration in Poland

Bogalecka

Grobelna

2023

IJERPH

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The purpose of this study is to present the state and variability of air pollution and its potential consequences for the intensity of tourism traffic based on the example of the Gdańsk agglomeration as a very popular tourist destination of Northern Poland. Specifically, the study seeks to answer the question how a future, qualified tourism workforce, such as tourism and hospitality (T&H) students from higher educational institutions (HEIs) located in the investigated area, perceive the problem of air pollution and whether their perception may have a potential impact on their attitudes and career aspirations towards working in the T&H industry after graduation. In this study, both a desk-research method and a questionnaire were used. The main results reveal that although the intensified tourist traffic does not coincide with high concentrations of pollutants and a poor quality of air, it cannot be clearly stated that tourists choose a destination being guided by the condition of ambient air pollution. The findings also show that T&H students are strongly aware of the air pollution problems and its negative consequences for the perceived attractiveness of a tourist destination and its labour market. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is among the first to analyse the relationships between air pollution and students’ perceptions of its consequences for tourism and for career development in the tourism industry, which is highly dependent on the environmental quality.

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Air Pollution and Its Potential Consequences for Tourism and Career Development from Students’ Perspective: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration in Poland

Bogalecka

Grobelna

2023

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“…The extension of this analysis has led to testing the tourism-EKC hypothesis (a systematic review is performed by Sun et al 2022). For the most part, the dependent variable of the analysis has been CO 2 emissions, and less frequently some air pollutants (as in Ciarlantini et al 2023 andZhang andLu 2022). However, in this context, the energy variable has not been previously used.…”

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The Impact of Tourism on Energy Consumption: A Sectoral Analysis for the Most Visited Countries in the World

Pablo-Romero,

Sánchez-Braza,

García-Soto

2023

Economies

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Tourist activity has strategic importance in the global economy. Nevertheless, the tourism activities are linked to increased emissions, due to the sector’s energy intensity, especially in the transport and commercial sectors. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between final energy consumption in the whole economy, the transport, commercial and public services sectors, and the tourist activity in the 15 countries with the highest number of international tourist arrivals in the world, in 2000–2019 period. The Energy–Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis extended with tourism has been tested. Obtained results show non-linear relationships between energy consumption and production levels. There is evidence in favor of the energy EKC hypothesis, and in favor of an inverted N-shaped relationship for transport and commercial and public services sectors. The results also show a positive, increasing relationship between energy consumption and tourist arrivals for the whole economy. However, there is some evidence of the tourism energy EKC hypothesis when considering the transport, commercial and public services sectors. Therefore, economies of scale are observed in these sectors. Accordingly, it is highly advisable to increase the economies of scale, coupled with a greater awareness on the use of renewable energy. Negative relationships are found between energy consumption and tourism receipts. Therefore, it is advisable to establish policies that encourage high quality tourism to control the economy’s energy consumption.

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“…Although it is believed that in rural areas and small cities the pollutants concentrations are much lower than in metropolitan cities, this is not always true. The transportation of polluted air masses from nearby large urban areas (Triantafylllou et al, 2016), the seasonal increase of the population (e.g., touristic period, Zhang and Lu 2022) and thus the emissions from traffic and shipping, physical phenomena (e.g., Sahara dust events) and the types of fuel used for residential heating are among the parameters that can negatively affect the local air quality. The existence of a low-cost network of air quality sensors that operate on a daily basis can provide an insight of the conditions that influence the recorded concentrations (Kosmopoulos et al, 2022).…”

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Seasonal fluctuations of PM2.5 concentrations at six Greek islands

Fameli,

Kotrikla,

Polydoropoulou

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Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science &Amp; Technology

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PM2.5 concentrations in urban areas vary significantly spatially and seasonally. Measurements can be affected by multiply parameters such as anthropogenic activities, meteorological conditions as well as land use. In the present study one-year PM2.5 measurements from the network of low-cost sensors deployed at six Aegean Sea islands (Lemnos, Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, and Syros) were used to study the seasonal changes and the possible impacts from the local sources (e.g., road transport, residential heating) on the air quality. It is the first time that such a long timeseries of PM2.5 concentrations was collected simultaneously at islands with different socioeconomic characteristics (e.g., Syros and Rhodes are among the most popular touristic destinations in Greece) and meteorological conditions (longer warm period in Rhodes in comparison to Lemnos, Lesvos, and Chios). Moreover, citizens’ insight on local air quality and emission sources was collected through the conduction of semi-structured interviews. Results revealed that lower PM2.5 concentrations were recorded during the warm period and the range of minimum – maximum concentrations was smaller. In the cold period peak values were measured at Lesvos, Samos, and Chios mainly in the evening hours. Comparing the mean seasonal concentrations, it was found that the lowest values were measured at Syros for both warm and cold periods.

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Exploring the Effects of Tourism Development on Air Pollution: Evidence from the Panel Smooth Transition Regression Model

Cited by 12 publications

References 59 publications

Air Pollution and Its Potential Consequences for Tourism and Career Development from Students’ Perspective: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration in Poland

Air Pollution and Its Potential Consequences for Tourism and Career Development from Students’ Perspective: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration in Poland

The Impact of Tourism on Energy Consumption: A Sectoral Analysis for the Most Visited Countries in the World

Seasonal fluctuations of PM2.5 concentrations at six Greek islands

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