Tourist arrivals, energy consumption and pollutant emissions in a developing economy–implications for sustainable tourism
By Rabindra Nepal, M. Indra Al Irsyad, S. Nepal. Tourism Management, 2019
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Sustainable tourism management policies should aim at maximising economic benefits from tourist arrivals while minimising associated adverse impacts on the environment. This study assesses the short-run and long-run relationships between tourist arrivals, per capita economic output, emissions, energy consumption and capital formation, citing Nepal as a specific case study. We developed four hypotheses and tested them using time-series econometrics based on the autoregressive distributed lag model and Granger causality tests. The results provide strong evidence of an economy driven tourism sector where expansion in economic output leads to expansion in tourist arrivals. More tourist arrivals, in turn, generate positive impacts on gross capital formation. Energy consumption negatively affects tourist arrivals, calling for increased attention towards improving energy efficiency and energy diversity. We conclude that national policies to increase tourist arrivals should be integrated with national energy and environmental policies in order to facilitate the transition towards a sustainable tourism sector.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science
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- Tourism, economic growth, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in China (2020, background): “Citing Nepal as a case study, Nepal et al. (2019) found strong evidence of an economy-driven tourism sector and argued that energy consumption negatively affects tourist arrivals.”
- Tourism and Development in Developing Economies: A Policy Implication Perspective (2020, background): “Rabindra [28] suggested a significant long‐term association between capital formation and tourism in Nepal.”
- How does tourism development affect environmental pollution? (2021, methodology): “Following the literature (Nepal et al., 2019), the variables are measured as follows.”