A Rough Estimation of Energy Consumption and CO₂ Emission in Tourism of GanSu Province Based on Low-Carbon

Abstract:

Low-carbon tourism is proposed as a new pattern to develop the global low-carbon economy, which goes with the tide in the global climate of change. Because tourism industry has a so close association with another industries that almost every link of tourism activities could be related to energy consumption and CO₂ emission. So, energy conservation and emission reduction constitute an important part of developing low-carbon tourism. This article selects GanSu Province, the weak ecological environment, as the research object. In accordance with the documents research and mathematical statistics , and the "bottom-up" study method., we made an research on energy consumption and the CO₂ emission of GanSu province from the tourism travel , tourism accommodation, and tourism activities, respectively. From the result, GanSu's tourism with low-carbon and energy-saving characteristics, accounting for 0.45% energy consumptions and 0.86% CO₂ emission in that of the GanSu's tourism. It shows that tourism fits in with the requirements of low-carbon tourism development. However, one of the most important factor in the tourism energy consumption and the CO₂ emission is the tourism transportation, accounting for 68.83% energy consumptions and 65.96% CO₂ emission in that of tourism respectively, which should be focus on as the key link in low-carbon tourism development.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 316-317)
• Pages: 435-440
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.316-317.435
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Bei Bei Jiao, Pei Ji Shi
• Keywords: Energy Consumption (EC), Gansu Province, Low-Carbon Tourism

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