The relationship between tourism, CO2 emissions and economic growth: a case of Mediterranean countries

By Esra Ballı, Çiler Sigeze, M. Manga, S. Birdir, K. Birdir. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 2019

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ABSTRACT This study explores the impact of tourism on economic growth considering CO2 emissions utilizing panel data techniques for a sample of Mediterranean countries. The cointegration tests reveal that there is a positive long-run equilibrium between tourism, CO2 emissions and economic growth. This positive long-run relationship may suggest that tourism increases the level of CO2 emissions and has a statistically significant impact on economic growth in Mediterranean countries. Emirmahmutoglu and Kose (2011. Testing for Granger causality in heterogeneous mixed panels. Economic Modelling, 28(3), 870–876.) test results reveal that the tourism-led growth hypothesis, which suggests that tourism contributes to economic growth, is valid for Egypt, Italy, and Spain. Additionally, there exists a bidirectional relationship between tourism and economic growth both in Morocco and Turkey.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Revisiting the role of tourism and globalization in environmental degradation in China: Fresh insights from the quantile ARDL approach (2020, background): “Balli et al. (2019) estimated that this impact has a positive long-run nexus with tourism with respect to CO2 emissions in Mediterranean countries.”
• Tourism, economic growth, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in China (2020, background): “In different case studies, Balli et al. (2019), Lee and Brahmasrene (2013), and Danish and Wang (2018) all asserted that a positive long-run equilibrium between tourism, GDP, and CO2 emissions exists.”