“…Empirical studies in the literature mainly focus on the economic growth effects of tourism in general terms (Aslan, 2014(Aslan, , 2016Bilen et al, 2017;Brida et al, 2015;Gricar et al, 2021;Habibi et al, 2018;Haller et al, 2021;Kim et al, 2006;Seetanah, 2011). In addition to these, tourism, energy and carbon emissions link has also been the subject of various studies (Adedoyin et al, 2021;Ahmad et al, 2018;Azam et al, 2018;Chishti et al, 2020;Is ¸ı k et al, 2017;Jebli et al, 2014;Pablo-Romero et al, 2019;Sharif et al, 2017Sharif et al, , 2020aSharif et al, , 2020bTang & Abosedra, 2014;Tiwari et al, 2013;Xiangyu et al, 2021). However, the current empirical literature, based on the effects of pilgrimage activities for Saudi Arabia, is lacking.…”