Tourism in Austria: biodiversity, environmental sustainability, and growth issues

Malik, Muhammad Asad Saleem; Shah, Syed Asim; Zaman, Khalid

doi:10.1007/s11356-016-7609-x

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“…For example, several scholars have revealed that while tourism actively promotes the development of the economy, it also causes adverse effects in terms of water pollution [21,22]. In addition, several studies have found that negative impacts on the environment and biodiversity are most pronounced near tourist resorts [23,24]. Some scholars have found that tourism seems to be a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and its air pollution cannot be ignored [25,26].…”

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The Carbon Emission Reduction Effect of Tourism Economy and Its Formation Mechanism: An Empirical Study of China’s 92 Tourism-Dependent Cities

Tong

Zhang

2022

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The tourism economy is regarded as an effective way to realize regional sustainable development. Hence, it is of great significance to explore whether and how tourism economy can alleviate regional carbon emission intensity. To this end, a structural equation model (SEM) reflecting the multiple pathways of the carbon emission reduction effect of tourism economy was constructed based on 92 tourism-dependent cities in China, and the existence and formation mechanism of the carbon emission reduction effect of tourism economy were empirically tested. The main findings are as follows: (1) The tourism economy has a significant carbon emission reduction effect in China. Although the direct impact of tourism economy on carbon emission intensity is significantly positive, the indirect impact is significantly negative and stronger than the direct impact. (2) The carbon emission reduction effect of tourism economy presents multiple pathways characteristics. There are single intermediary pathways such as Tourism Economy → Environmental Regulation → Carbon Emission Intensity, Tourism Economy → Opening-Up → Carbon Emission Intensity, and dual intermediary pathways such as Tourism Economy → Opening-Up → Industrial Development → Carbon Emission Intensity, Tourism Economy → Opening-Up → Innovation Capacity → Carbon Emission Intensity. (3) The formation mechanism of the carbon emission reduction effect of tourism economy presents obvious spatial heterogeneity.

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The Carbon Emission Reduction Effect of Tourism Economy and Its Formation Mechanism: An Empirical Study of China’s 92 Tourism-Dependent Cities

Tong

Zhang

2022

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“…Based on these studies, growth in the tourism industry might lead to environmental degradation and biodiversity loss (e.g. Mikayilov, Mukhtarov et al (2019) for Azerbaijan, Malik et al (2016) for Austria, Katircioglu et al (2018) for the main tourist destination countries, and Sharif et al (2019c) for China).…”

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Revisiting the role of tourism and globalization in environmental degradation in China: Fresh insights from the quantile ARDL approach

Sharif

Godil

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Ascertaining sustainable development is a major issue across the globe, and the economic growth pattern achieved is a predominant reason behind this. The globalization-led economic growth achieved by the emerging economies might not be ecologically sustainable, as globalization might not have been utilized as a policy tool. Moreover, a sound policy calls for considering the entire data spectrum for the analysis, which is largely ignored in the literature. This research contributes to the literature by proffering a policy framework for the emerging economies by analyzing the impact of globalization and tourism on environmental degradation, by considering the Chinese context as a sample. Following the quantile autoregressive distributed lag model, the impact of economic growth, globalization, and tourism on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide emissions, and the ecological footprint in China over 1978Q1-2017Q4 are analyzed. The results demonstrate that economic growth stimulates environmental degradation, while the presence of Environmental Kuznets Curve is also validated. Moreover, tourism has been found to exert positive environmental externalities, while globalization exerts negative environmental externalities. Based on the outcomes of the research, a comprehensive policy framework has been suggested, following which the Chinese economy might be able to attain the objectives of Sustainable Development Goals 7, 8, and 13.

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“…The study concludes that sustainable INTL_TOUR is imperative for limiting negative environmental externalities to follow carbon-free INTL_TOUR across countries. Malik et al [2] argued that expansion in INTL_TOUR infrastructure leads to biodiversity loss through a channel of increase in the population pressure per square km of land area. This result is checked in the Australian context by utilizing the time series data from 1975-2015.…”

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“…The evaluation of the true cost of carbon emissions on economic sectors is needed for the globalized world to formulate sustainable economic policies in order to limit negative environmental externalities [1]. International tourism (INTL_TOUR) is the leading service sector in terms of revenue generation in most of the developed and developing countries that are affiliated with high carbon costs [2,3]. According to a UNWTO [4] report, inbound tourism increased by 5% in the year 2018, which reaches 1.4 billion tourist arrivals worldwide, while at the same time, a 4% increase in tourism export earnings reached $1.7 trillion USD worldwide.…”

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Identifying the Carbon Emissions Damage to International Tourism: Turn a Blind Eye

Anser

Yousaf²,

Awan

et al. 2020

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The importance of sustainable tourism is largely discussed in environmental literature under two different main streams: first, an ample amount of literature is available on the role of international tourism in economic development; second, the existing literature mainly focused on estimating tourism carbon footprints across countries. Limited work has been done on identifying the cost of carbon emissions on the tourism industry, which is evaluated in this study to fill the existing literature gap by using a large panel of 132 countries between 1995 and 2018. The results show that carbon emissions damage, methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, and population density substantially decrease inbound tourism and international tourism receipts that result in an impact on the increase in international tourism expenditures across countries. The ex-ante analysis shows that inbound tourism will likely decrease from 19.546% to 16.854% due to an increase in carbon emissions damage of 0.357% to 1.349% for the period 2020–2028. Subsequently, international tourism expenditures will decrease from 19.758% to 12.384% by increasing carbon emissions damage from0.832% to 1.025%. Finally, international tourism revenues will subsequently decline from23.362% to 18.197% due to lowering carbon emissions damage from 0.397% to −0.113% over a time horizon.

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Tourism in Austria: biodiversity, environmental sustainability, and growth issues

Cited by 31 publications

References 48 publications

The Carbon Emission Reduction Effect of Tourism Economy and Its Formation Mechanism: An Empirical Study of China’s 92 Tourism-Dependent Cities

The Carbon Emission Reduction Effect of Tourism Economy and Its Formation Mechanism: An Empirical Study of China’s 92 Tourism-Dependent Cities

Revisiting the role of tourism and globalization in environmental degradation in China: Fresh insights from the quantile ARDL approach

Identifying the Carbon Emissions Damage to International Tourism: Turn a Blind Eye

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