Author(s)

Zheng Li ¹, Chaobing Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Geography and Tourism, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276800, China

Corresponding Author

Zheng Li

ABSTRACT

The global climate problem is becoming more and more serious, and the contribution of carbon emissions caused by rapid tourism development to global warming cannot be ignored. It is of great significance to study the measurement of tourism carbon emission and its influencing factors, clarify the level of tourism carbon emission, and deepen the understanding of tourism's role in energy conservation and emission reduction for promoting the low-carbon transformation of tourism, improving tourism environment, and constructing tourism ecological civilization. Based on the Web of Science and CNKI database, this paper makes statistics and analyses of domestic and foreign journals in the field of tourism carbon emissions from 2010 to 2023. By combing the domestic and foreign literature, this paper further discusses the research status on the measurement range, quantitative method, influencing factors, and reduction countermeasures of tourism carbon emissions, points out the shortcomings of existing research, and puts forward the prospect of future research.

KEYWORDS

Tourism, influencing factor, carbon emissions, literature review

CITE THIS PAPER

Zheng Li, Chaobing Chen, Research Progress and Current Situation on Tourism Carbon Emissions. Environment, Resource and Ecology Journal (2023) Vol. 7: 23-32. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/erej.2023.070703.

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