Fiery trails: tourism's forest fire dance

Laxita Soontha, Syed Mohd Shahzeb, Mohammad Younus Bhat, Javeed Ahmad Ganie and Sonal Gupta

Current Issues in Tourism, 2025, vol. 28, issue 5, 824-848

Abstract: Tourism drives global economic growth and cultural exchange, but also raises climate vulnerability and forest fire concerns. This study explores the relationship between tourism and forest fires in emerging and advanced economies, aligned with UN's SDGs. Using ARDL model, findings show that a 1% increase in tourism development leads to 1% & 0.575% surge in forest fires in advanced and emerging economies respectively. In the short run, tourism leads to a decrease in forest fires in emerging economies, while in long-run risks increases for both panels of economies. This emphasises the need for eco-friendly practices for sustainable tourism. Governments should prioritise eco-tourism, green infrastructure, and SDG-13, SDG-9, SDG-11 for climate action, tech and sustainable transport.

Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13683500.2024.2336119 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

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:taf:rcitxx:v:28:y:2025:i:5:p:824-848

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rcit20

DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2024.2336119

Access Statistics for this article

Current Issues in Tourism is currently edited by Jennifer Tunstall

More articles in Current Issues in Tourism from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().