Low carbon transition and sustainable development path of tourism industry

International Symposium on Resource Exploration and Environmental Science

地球科学;生态环境科学

Zhu, Hongbing^1 ; Zhang, Jing^2 ; Zhao, Lei^1 ; Jin, Shenglang^1

School of Tourism, Huangshan University, Anhui, China^1

School of Tourism, Huangshan Vocational and Technical College, Anhui, China^2

关键词: Global environment;    Low carbon transformations;    Low-carbon transitions;    Production system;    Renewable energies;    Sustainable consumption;    Theoretical framework;    Water efficiency;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/64/1/012053/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/64/1/012053

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The low carbon transition is as much a transformative technology shift as it represents a response to global environment challenges. The low carbon paradigm presents a new direction of change for tourism industry. However, the lack of theoretical frameworks on low carbon transformation in tourism industry context provides a significant knowledge gap. This paper firstly investigates the relationships between low carbon and sustainable development, followed by exploring the existing challenges of tourism sustainable development. At last, this paper presents a sustainable development path framework for low carbon transition of tourism industry, which include accelerating deployment of renewable energy, energy-saving green building construction, improving green growth investment, and adopting a sustainable consumption and production system, in order to promote energy and water efficiency, waste management, GHG emissions mitigation and eventually enhance its sustainability.