Abstract
Since the introduction of the carbon Kuznets-curve hypothesis in the mid-1990s, the inverted U–shaped relationship between economic development and carbon emissions has remained a subject of debate in the social sciences. We engage tourism research in this debate, in a fourfold manner. First, we offer a systematic literature review concerning the role of tourism in the carbon Kuznets-curve hypothesis using a protocol-based reporting process. Second, we present the level of consensus with the carbon Kuznets-curve hypothesis and the conceptual gaps in the identified literature (n = 22). Third, we introduce an emerging concept, offering a novel tourism corporate/performance orientation to the carbon Kuznets-curve hypothesis. Fourth, we provide evidence of empirical validity using different econometric techniques from an international tourism corporation (n = 86) data set (2005–2018). The inverted U–shaped relationship between measures of economic and carbon performance among tourism corporations is a robust result under many different specifications.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 0 |
Pages (from-to) | 0 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Travel Research |
Volume | 0 |
Early online date | 3 May 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Early online - 3 May 2020 |
Keywords
- tourism development
- Kuznets-curve
- systematic literature review
- climate change
- carbon emissions
- panel data techniques