The carbon footprint and decarbonisation (or not) of tourism: insights from environmentally-extended regional input output analysis

Jones, Calvin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-2330 2023. The carbon footprint and decarbonisation (or not) of tourism: insights from environmentally-extended regional input output analysis. [Working Paper]. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

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Abstract

Tourism is an important and almost certainly increasing driver of anthropogenic climate change. However, intelligence on the greenhouse gas emissions related to of tourism trips and to destinations is relatively limited, even more so in terms of trends over time. This paper uses an environmentally extended input-output approach to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions arising from tourism to and in Wales, a region of the UK, in 2007 and 2019. We suggest that the overall ‘footprint’ of tourism is around 3.3 megatons, 8.5% of total territorial emissions, and that there has been a very modest reduction of just over 1% per annum since 2007, with these largely consequent on reduced visitor volumes and on supply chain decarbonisation. This slow progress and the increase in inter-continental visits to Wales over the period suggest tourism here – and probably in most regions – is not embarked upon a climate-responsible transformation.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Business (Including Economics) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Publisher:	Cardiff University
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2023 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156224

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