Abstract:
Using bottom-up method to estimate the carbon emission in tourism sectors which including tourism transportation, accommodations and tourism activities. The results showed that， (1) The tourism transportation, accommodation and tourism activities showed an increasing trend in Shanxi province from 2000 to 2012, and their growth rate are 125%, 300% and 683.41% respectively. The growth rate of highway and civil aviation was faster than that of railway, the growth rate of accommodation displayed the undulatory property, and the carbon emissions of different tourism activities followed by leisure travel > relative visits > sightseeing tours > business > others. (2) The carbon emissions of tourism industry were increased continuously, it is increased by 0.610 2 Mt during 13 years. The carbon emissions of tourism transportation was more than that of accommodation and tourism activities, it had the decisive influence in Shanxi province. The growth rate of carbon emission showed the undulatory property, but the per capita carbon emissions and the carbon emissions intensity had a drop tendency from 2003, which indicated that the tourism industry become healthy gradually. (3) There was an unbalanced phenomenon of carbon emissions in different regions, in which the most regions had Taiyuan, Datong, Yuncheng and Jinzhong in emission quantity, and the fastest had Lüliang, Jinzhong and Shuozhou in speed. In order to reduce the carbon emissions of tourism, the governments, the traveling operators and the tourists should work together to practice the low-carbon tourism.
