Effect of tourism on environmental pollution: Further evidence from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

By Muhammad Azam, Mahmudul Alam, Muhammad Haroon Hafeez. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018

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Abstract An increasing number of studies reveal that tourism industry makes a substantial contribution towards socioeconomic growth and development of tourism led economies. However, tourism steered economic growth and development is achieved at the cost of environmental pollution and degradation. The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of tourists’ arrivals on environmental pollution caused by Carbon Dioxide emissions in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore over the period of 1990–2014. Some other regressors namely energy consumption and income are also used in the multivariate model. The Zivot–Andrews test is employed to determine unit-root and presence of structural break in the data. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares estimator is used as an analytical technique for unknown parameters estimation. The empirical results reveal that tourism has a significant positive effect on environmental pollution in Malaysia. However, an inverse relationship between tourism and environmental pollution is observed in Thailand and Singapore. Empirical findings suggest that sustainable economic growth and development should be ensured by implementing prudent public policy where host governments must strive to promote socially and environmentally responsible tourism industries in their respective countries.

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Air pollution and tourism development: An interplay (2020, positive): “The development of tourism may damage the local ecological environment, and the improvement of a tourism economy is likely to aggravate air pollution (Azam et al., 2018; Zhong et al., 2011).”
• How does tourism development affect environmental pollution? (2021, background): “Similarly, Azam et al. (2018) and Zhang and Gao (2016) have also found a reducing effect of tourism development on CAR.”
• Tourism and Environmental Pollution: Evidence from the One Belt One Road Provinces of Western China (2018, background): “Our estimations also confirm mix results for five provinces [25,29].”
• Tourism, economic growth, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in China (2020, background): “In addition, Azam et al. (2018) concluded that tourism had a significant positive effect on CO2 emissions in Malaysia; however, an inverse relationship was observed in Thailand and Singapore.”
• The impact of tourism on CO2 emission in Turkey (2020, methodology): “Azam et al. (2018) analyzed the nexus between tourism and CO2 emission in Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. They indicated that tourism has a positive impact on CO2 emission in Malaysia, but tourism has a negative impact on CO2 emission in Thailand and Singapore. Akadiri, Lasisi, Uzuner, and Akadir”