RESEARCH ON SPACE-TIME HETEROGENEITY OF TOURISM INDUSTRY CARBON EMISSION INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION AND INFLUENCING FACTORS: ANALYSIS OF PANEL DATA FROM 30 PROVINCES(CITIES AND DISTRICTS) FROM 2005 TO 2014
PAN Zhi-qiang, LIANG Bao-er
College of Tourism, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
Abstract This paper collects six sector panel data of transportation, post and telecommunications, industry, commerce, catering, accommodation industry and social service industry, trying to decompose of the key factors that affect carbon emission of tourism industry in China with the method of LMDI, as well, to reveal the exchangeable temporal and spatial dynamic relationship between total amounts and intensity of tourism industry carbon emission in 30 provinces (city, district) between the year 2005 to 2014. The results show that:1) The amounts of tourism carbon emissions presented a rising trend year by year. Specifically, there is an obvious trend that the growth rate of eastern regions was significantly higher than that in the western region. Of all the growth in tourism carbon emissions amount, tourism carbon emission and tourism developmental anticyclicality of crisis play an important part. 2) The intensity of tourism carbon emissions showed a trend of decreasing year by year. Meanwhile in space, there's an obvious trend that the growth rate of western regions keeps much higher than that of the eastern region. 3) Those key factors that influence carbon emissions of tourism industry in China could mainly be listed as:tourism economy output (TEO), tourism reception (TP), tourism industry structure (TIS), tourism energy efficiency (TEE), tourism energy structure(TES), with the former two works as incremental factors, while the latter three work as reduction factors.
2016, Vol. 31 
