Tourism and Road Transport Emissions in Italy

Lorenzo Betta, Barbara Dattilo, Enrico di Bella, Giovanni Finocchiaro and Silvia Iaccarino
Additional contact information
Lorenzo Betta: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, Italy
Barbara Dattilo: ISTAT—Italian National Institute of Statistics, 00184 Rome, Italy
Enrico di Bella: Department of Political Sciences, University of Genova, 16124 Genova, Italy
Giovanni Finocchiaro: ISPRA—Italian Institute for Environment Protection and Research, 00144 Rome, Italy
Silvia Iaccarino: ISPRA—Italian Institute for Environment Protection and Research, 00144 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 22, 1-21

Abstract: Tourism is of great importance to European economies, but environmental degradation could reduce the attractiveness of many European destinations considerably. This is even more evident if the future of tourism is depicted in the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. However, official statistics on the environmental impact of tourism provide only partial information, and almost always with an “accounting scheme” approach, such as occasional and experimental experiences on integrated economic and environmental accounts of tourism. It is necessary to enrich the activity of monitoring and measuring the impact of tourism on the environment and implement policies aimed at increasing the sustainability of the sector. This work intends to contribute to extending information about the theme, providing a new approach based on the integration of official data to study the relationship between tourism and the environment. In detail, the objective of the work is to estimate the level of emissions—in terms of the primary air pollutants—produced by tourists travelling in Italy by road transport in the period 2015–2019. Even if much has to be done to improve the knowledge on the tourism–environment nexus, this paper represents a first relevant step towards an approach that can be easily implemented in all EU countries.

Keywords: official statistics; tourism; road transport emissions; traffic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/22/12712/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/22/12712/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:22:p:12712-:d:681228

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().