Tourism, environment and energy: an analysis for China. Issue 23 (1st December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sharif, Arshian; Saha, Shrabani; Campbell, Neil; Sinha, Avik; Ibrahiem, Dalia M.
• Is Part Of: Current issues in tourism. Volume 23:Issue 23(2020)
• Page Start: 2930
• Page End: 2949
• Publication Date: 2020-12-01
• Subjects: Energy utilization -- renewable energy -- CO2 emission -- tourism -- partial and multiple wavelet coherence -- country study; Q32 -- Q35 -- Q53 -- Z30 -- Z32; Tourism -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Travel -- Periodicals; 338.479105
• DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2019.1703913
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1368-3500

Abstract

ABSTRACT: International tourism as a cause of global warming is a controversial and topical issue. Here, we use the novel Morlet Wavelet time–frequency approach to gain a deeper insight into the dynamic nexus between tourism, renewable energy utilization, energy utilization and carbon dioxide emissions for China using annual data over the era 1974–2016. The techniques we use include Continuous Wavelet power spectrum, the Wavelet Coherency, and the Partial and the Multiple Wavelet Coherence for time–frequency decomposition that can capture local oscillatory components in time series. Our findings support the hypothesis that tourism can cause increased energy utilization and carbon dioxide emissions in China, which challenges the sustainable tourism development goal. However, on the positive side, the relationship between tourism and renewable energy utilization is shown to facilitate reduced environmental degradation in the medium-long run.