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

Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Usama Awan, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro and Khalid Zaman
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Muhammad Khalid Anser: Department of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710000, China
Zahid Yousaf: Higher Education Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Government College of Management Sciences, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
Usama Awan: Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, P.O. Box 20, FI-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland
Abdelmohsen A. Nassani: Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh 11587, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro: Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh 11587, Saudi Arabia
Khalid Zaman: Department of Economics, University of Wah, Quaid Avenue, Wah Cantt 47040, Pakistan

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: 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 (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 O) 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.

Keywords: Carbon emissions damage; international tourism; methane emissions; nitrous oxide emissions; population density; differenced GMM estimator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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