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Impact of Tourism on the Environment

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 4655

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Grażyna Furgala-Selezniow

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Department of Tourism, Recreation and Ecology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 5, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: tourism geography; natural environment in tourism and recreation; land use/land cover changes; biology of fish larvae; feeding of fish larvae
Dr. Ana Isabel Barros Pimentel Rodrigues

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Department of Management, Polytechnic Institute of Beja, 7800-000 Beja, Portugal
Interests: destination image; sustainability communication; lake tourism, tourism experience; tourism visual research; visual practices in tourism teaching; global skills in tourism education; qualitative methods applied to tourism
Dr. Aneta Pawłowska-Legwand

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Department of Tourism and Health Resort Management, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
Interests: ICT in tourism; technology-enhanced tourist experience; museum experience; place branding

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

According to the UNWTO, tourism is one of the largest sectors in the world, with a high growth rate. Tourism development depends on the availability of attractive natural and/or man-made resources in an area, which tourists demand and pay for. These two groups of resources directly influence the demand and supply characteristics of most tourist areas worldwide. Increased tourism business activity results in increased consumption levels of energy and natural resources and investment in tourism facilities. This affects the quality of the environment through the use of resources and the waste generated. There is a significant relationship between tourism and the quality of the physical and social environment. The interactions between tourism and environmental change imply the promotion of more sustainable, environmentally friendly tourist behaviour and the practices of tourism companies.

This Special Issue aims to present and analyse the problems and implications arising from the use and management of environmental and cultural resources in tourist areas, as the intensive growth of tourism is raising questions about the global impact of the sector on the natural and cultural environment.

Prof. Dr. Grażyna Furgala-Selezniow
Dr. Ana Isabel Barros Pimentel Rodrigues
Dr. Aneta Pawłowska-Legwand
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental resources
  • cultural resources
  • tourism development
  • tourism impact
  • the climate change-tourism relationship
  • sustainable tourism policies
  • environmental pollution
  • garbage problem
  • sustainability communication practices

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Exploring the Coordination and Spatial–Temporal Characteristics of the Tourism–Economy–Environment Development in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China
by Xueru Pang, Yuquan Zhou, Yiting Zhu and Chunshan Zhou
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 1981; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031981 - 21 Jan 2023
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The rise of mass tourism has encouraged rapid economic growth; meanwhile, the eco-environmental system has come under increasing pressure. To achieve sustainable development, it is critical to deeply explore the relationship and evolution characteristics between three subsystems: tourism, the economy, and the eco-environment. [...] Read more.
The rise of mass tourism has encouraged rapid economic growth; meanwhile, the eco-environmental system has come under increasing pressure. To achieve sustainable development, it is critical to deeply explore the relationship and evolution characteristics between three subsystems: tourism, the economy, and the eco-environment. This study aims to develop a more comprehensive indicator system for evaluating the coupling coordination degree (CCD) of the tourism–economy–environment (TEE) system using statistical data from nine cities in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) urban agglomeration from 2010 to 2019. We investigated the spatial–temporal evolution characteristics and driving forces of the TEE system in the PRD using the CCD model and the geo-detector model. The research results show the following: (1) The comprehensive benefits of the TEE system have increased steadily over the past 10 years, whereas the benefits of the eco-environment subsystem have fluctuated and been relatively unstable. (2) Spatially, in terms of tourism development, the eastern regions of the PRD are more developed than the western regions, and the regions with the greatest tourism benefits have gradually shifted to the northeastern regions of the PRD. Economic development presented an imbalanced but relatively stable spatial pattern. Guangzhou and Shenzhen have been the two most economically developed cities over the past 10 years. The eco-environment development has fluctuated over time, revealing a spatial pattern of cities with low environmental benefits in the center and cities with high eco-environmental benefits in the surrounding regions. (3) The PRD’s TEE system has become more integrated, moving from moderate disorder to a model of high-quality coordinated development, demonstrating a spatial pattern in which the cities of high development coordination are located near the Pearl River Estuary, and the coordination decreases the further away they are from the estuary. (4) The major driving factors of heterogeneous TEE coordination development include eco-environment protection, opening-up policies, education investment, technological innovation level, and the regional economic development level. The results are expected to effectively promote economic, tourism, and environmental improvement in the PRD, as well as to provide policy recommendations for coordinated TEE development in other similar urban agglomerations. Full article
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Ecological Civilization and High-Quality Development: Do Tourism Industry and Technological Progress Affect Ecological Economy Development?
by Wei Yang, Qiuxia Chen, Yanyue Dao, Xiaoting Huang and Weifang Shao
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 783; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010783 - 31 Dec 2022
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The tourism industry is considered a smokeless industry or green economy. Under the circumstances of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, it is essential and urgent to explore whether the tourism industry and technological progress can promote ecological economy development. Based on the panel [...] Read more.
The tourism industry is considered a smokeless industry or green economy. Under the circumstances of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, it is essential and urgent to explore whether the tourism industry and technological progress can promote ecological economy development. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in mainland China from 2007–2019, this paper, for the first time, incorporates the tourism industry, technological progress, and ecological economy development into the analytical framework by constructing a PVAR model. In addition, this paper calculates the indicator weights of each variable using the entropy weighting method. This paper utilizes GMM tests, impulse response analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and variance decomposition to empirically investigate the dynamic impact mechanism of variables interacting with each other. The conclusions are as follows. First, the tourism industry always contributes positively to ecological economy development, while technological progress can facilitate ecological economy development in the long run rather than in the short term. Second, the tourism industry also positively contributes to technological progress. Third, ecological economy development has a “crowding out effect” on the tourism industry. Fourth, the tourism industry in developed eastern regions has a more powerful impact on ecological economy development than in underdeveloped middle and western regions. Based on the empirical results, we provide practical implications: first, the assessment system of the regional economy should include ecological development indicators; second, the tourism industry should accelerate the use of clean energy and the transformation of green technological innovation. Full article
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