Tourism and environmental performance: New evidence using a threshold regression analysis

Lv, Zhike; Xu, Ting

doi:10.1177/13548166211042450

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“…Other research, such as that by Lee and Brahmasrene (2013) and de Vita et al (2015) explores this connection along with electrical energy use, demonstrating the beneficial impact of tourism on environmental degradation; while Zaman et al (2016) determine an inverse relationship between the variables considered for an analysis in three regions of the world. According to Lv and Xu (2023), tourism always has a major detrimental impact on environmental performance, meaning that environmental deterioration will inevitably come from tourism, regardless of how developed the industry is. On the other hand, tourism will comparatively have less of an impact on environmental performance after it reaches a certain level of development.…”

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Environmental sustainability and tourism growth: convergence or compensation?

Torres-Díaz,

del Río-Rama,

Álvarez-García

et al. 2024

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In addition to the socio-economic advantages, tourism has been proven to be one of the most important sectors with adverse environmental effects. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between tourism and environmental sustainability by using a panel data from 32 countries in Latin America and the European Union for the period 2000–2019. Several techniques of cointegration and convergence of clusters are used to meet this objective. The empirical results show that on average, tourism growth has a negative impact on the environment in the two groups of countries, which could be attributed to the heterogeneity of the level of regional tourism development. On the other hand, the convergence of tourism growth and environmental sustainability is evident at different adjustment speeds in the different sample panels. It generates empirical evidence on whether the current expansion of the tourism sector in Latin American and European countries entails significant environmental externalities by using the ecological footprint variable as an indicator of environmental sustainability and foreign tourist arrivals as an economic indicator.

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Environmental sustainability and tourism growth: convergence or compensation?

Torres-Díaz,

del Río-Rama,

Álvarez-García

et al. 2024

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“…Paramati et al provided evidence for the EKC hypothesis between tourism and carbon emissions, arguing that the EKC hypothesis for tourism applies in both developed and developing economies [ 20 ]. Lv and Xu examined the non-linear impact of tourism on the environment, arguing that, in the early stage of tourism development, tourism’s legal and regulatory systems are not perfect and the relevant supporting policies and regulations are not standardised, leading to a sharp increase in pollution; however, when tourism develops to a certain stage, the laws, regulations, standards, and policies related to tourism are also becoming increasingly improved and well-managed, thereby reducing pollutant emissions [ 22 ].…”

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“…In addition, tourism may also have a non-linear effect on environmental degradation. Considering the dependence of tourism on the environment, with the development of tourism at a certain stage, the tourism industry and governments will also take measures to alleviate its negative impact on the environment [ 21 , 22 ].…”

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“…Given the uncertainty in the mechanism of tourism’s effect on the economy or the environment and the heterogeneity of tourism development stages among tourism destinations, the impact of tourism on green development may be non-linear. In addition, previous studies mostly tested the non-linear impact of tourism on the economy or the environment by grouping regression, introducing square terms, or using a traditional threshold regression model [ 14 , 19 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]; however, the first two methods often have the problem of subjectivity and high collinearity. Although the traditional threshold regression model can overcome the defects of the first two methods, it is also limited by maintaining the assumption of the exogeneity of the explanatory or threshold variables [ 25 ].…”

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Tourism and Green Development: Analysis of Linear and Non-Linear Effects

Jia

2022

IJERPH

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Clarifying the relationship between tourism and green development is conducive to promoting the harmonious coexistence of tourism industry benefits and economic and environmental systems. The externalities of tourism on economies and the environment have sparked numerous fascinating academic research debates; however, few studies have considered the impact of tourism on green development that balances economic growth and environmental protection. This study selects the green development efficiency measured by the super-efficient SBM model with undesired output as a proxy indicator of green development and adopts the panel data regression model and dynamic panel threshold regression model to investigate the linear impact and non-linear characteristics of tourism on the green development efficiency for 284 cities in mainland China at the prefecture level and above. The main findings are as follows: (1) Although China’s green development efficiency showed an upward trend during the study period, the overall level was not high. (2) Tourism has significantly promoted the improvement of China’s green development efficiency, indicating that tourism has become an effective driver of China’s economic green transformation. (3) This type of positive promotion of green development by tourism has a non-linear threshold characteristic, which means that, with the continuous improvement of the development level of the tourism industry, after crossing a specific threshold value and entering a higher level of development, the tourism industry will have an increasing marginal impact on the green development efficiency.

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“…Due to the environmental degradation caused by tourismrelated transport [9][10][11], the construction of sustainable transport systems in tourism destinations has drawn abundant attention worldwide [12][13][14]. As the preference for personalized and short-distance tours has been on the rise, scholars have pointed out the importance of rural tourism bus networks, and their positive efects on social inclusion, trafc congestion reduction, and local economics should not be ignored [5].…”

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Bus Route Design Problem for Rural Tourism Objectives: A Multiobjective Approach

Guo

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Rural tourism bus routes are an essential component of rural public transport systems, intending to serve tourist trips with passengers moving between critical regional transport nodes and tourist attractions. This paper presents a methodology for the optimal design of rural tourism bus routes by minimizing total travel costs for tourists and maximizing the total quality of tourism bus services. Road scenery, road design attributes, and route popularity elements are integrated into the evaluation of tourism bus service quality. The constraints for the bus route planning and tourism demand are taken into account to guarantee the rational design of rural tourism bus routes. A solution approach is put forward based on the initial solution set generation procedure and strengthens the elitist genetic algorithm. Finally, the bus network in a rural tourism destination of Nanjing is taken as the case study to validate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed model.

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Tourism and environmental performance: New evidence using a threshold regression analysis

Cited by 11 publications

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Environmental sustainability and tourism growth: convergence or compensation?

Environmental sustainability and tourism growth: convergence or compensation?

Tourism and Green Development: Analysis of Linear and Non-Linear Effects

Bus Route Design Problem for Rural Tourism Objectives: A Multiobjective Approach

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