Tourism Expenditures and Environment in Thailand

Malliga Sompholkrang ()
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Malliga Sompholkrang: Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance, 2014, vol. 2, issue 2, 63-69

Abstract: Tourism activities affect the environment of different destinations, which is influenced by different tourists’ consumption. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between inbound tourist expenditures and three main environmental dimensions, which are carbon dioxide emission from transport, energy demand, and water usage, in Thailand. This paper employs Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models to determine the relationship of variables. Data from Ministry of Energy, Bank of Thailand, Metropolitan Electricity Authority, Provincial Waterworks Authority, National Statistical Office, Department of Tourism, and Tourism Authority of Thailand between 1988 and 2012 have been applied in the model. Note that, energy demand is represented by total electricity consumption of hotel and accommodation sector in Thailand, while water usage is represented by the total water consumption of tourists. This study found the relationships among tourists’ expenditures, carbon dioxide emission from transport, energy demand, and water usage. Therefore, the policies recommendations may be essential to prepare the optimal schemes and budgets for encountering the environmental impacts from tourism business expansion.

Keywords: Tourist Expenditure; Environment; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.15604/ejef.2014.02.02.005

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