How Deep Is Tourist’s Carbon Footprint? New Skift Research Study

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Airline companies, cruise lines and even hotels have actually all been determined for their influence on the environment. But destinations themselves are hurting the environment also. Learn which ones, and how comprehensive the issue, in our first-of-its-kind report.

Varsha Arora, Skift Research Study

In 2019, tourist contributed about 11 percent of international greenhouse gas emissions. There are growing pressures on the tourism market to decrease this. Nevertheless, to date no standard guideline exists for nations to report emissions from tourism and the focus has only been on determining the financial effect of tourism.

In Skift Research’s freshly launched Sustainability in Travel 2021: Measuring Tourism Emissions for Destinations report, we investigate the status of carbon reporting in the tourism market and effort to quantify domestic and global tourism emissions for choose 25 countries. We do this by using openly available data and correlating inhabitant emissions with tourist emissions.

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What You’ll Learn From This Report

  • The international carbon footprint of tourist
  • Carbon emissions attributable to different parts of the tourism value chain
  • The status of carbon reporting in the tourist industry
  • Composition of direct and indirect emissions
  • Tourist emissions of 25 nations
  • How much CO2 domestic and worldwide tourists give off as compared to an average occupant

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