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Assessing tourism's global environmental impact 1900-2050

Författare

Summary, in English

This paper pioneers the assessment of tourism's total global resource use, including its fossil fuel consumption, associated CO2 emissions, fresh water, land, and food use. As tourism is a dynamic growth system, characterized by rapidly increasing tourist numbers, understanding its past, current, and future contributions to global resource use is a central requirement for sustainable tourism assessments. The paper introduces the concept of resource use intensities (RUIs), which represent tourism's resource needs per unit of consumption (e.g. energy per guest night). Based on estimates of RUIs, a first assessment of tourism's global resource use and emissions is provided for the period 1900-2050, utilizing the Peeters Global Tourism Transport Model. Results indicate that the current (2010) global tourism system may require c.16,700 PJ of energy, 138 km(3) of fresh water, 62,000 km(2) of land, and 39.4 Mt of food, also causing emissions of 1.12 Gt CO2. Despite efforts to implement more sustainable forms of tourism, analysis indicates that tourism's overall resource consumption may grow by between 92% (water) and 189% (land use) in the period 2010-2050. To maintain the global tourism system consequently requires rapidly growing resource inputs, while the system is simultaneously becoming increasingly vulnerable to disruptions in resource flows.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

639-659

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volym

23

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Economic Geography

Nyckelord

  • energy
  • food
  • fresh water
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • land use
  • scenarios
  • tourism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0966-9582