Accounting for tourism carbon emissions: A consumption stripping perspective based on the tourism satellite account

Fangming Qin, Jingyan Liu and Gang Li

Tourism Economics, 2024, vol. 30, issue 3, 633-654

Abstract: Limitations in statistical data and differences in accounting methods have hindered the accuracy of tourism carbon emissions accounting. In this research, based on the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) and underpinned by the logic of “accounting basis–key coefficient–accounting objective,†a comprehensive decomposition accounting method is built from a consumption stripping perspective. First, it classifies the tourism industry by the “sector–industry–product†structure into seven sectors, 13 industries, and 22 characteristic products/services. Next, it strips the actual tourism consumption from the tourism industry by constructing two key coefficients. Finally, it transforms tourism consumption data into carbon emissions data by introducing tourism ecological efficiency. Taking Guangdong province of China as an example, its tourism carbon emissions are calculated from 2010 to 2020 using the proposed method. The results reveal the distribution structure of tourism carbon emissions and confirm the scientific and accurate nature of this accounting method.

Keywords: tourism carbon emissions; tourism satellite account (TSA); consumption stripping; accounting method; tourism ecological efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/13548166231175378

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