Tourism carbon footprint and tourism carbon capacity based on three-dimensional tourism carbon footprint model: a case study of Gansu Province, China

Zhuoma Gangji, Hua Liu, Chunya Liu and Yumei Wei

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 2025, vol. 20, 1329-1342

Abstract: The carbon footprint (CF) in the tourism sector constitutes a crucial quantitative yardstick. This paper develops a three-dimensional tourism CF model and analyzes Gansu Province’s data from 2000 to 2020. The tourism CF increased from 5.82 million tons in 2000 to a peak 20 times higher in 2019, then dropped to 65.04 million tons in 2020 due to COVID-19. The tourism carbon capacity fluctuated and increased from 2.33 to 4.12 million tons. All TCF3D values exceeded 1, showing a continuous deficit. After predicting and fitting relevant data with the ARIMA model, suggestions for low-carbon tourism are put forward.

Keywords: tourism carbon footprint; tourism carbon capacity; ARIMA model; TCF3D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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