Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 26
Study on Low-Carbon
Economy Model and Method
of Chinese Tourism Industry
Zhang Mu
Jinan University, China
Tang Lei
Jinan University, China
Luo Jing
Jinan University, China
Feng Xiao-na
Jinan University, China
Zhang Xiaohong
Jinan University, China
Chen Shan
Jinan University, China
ABSTRACT
Recent years saw the global wave of new low-carbon economy, which is a new strategic measure to cope
with global warming, and it has gained lots of concerns from many governments. As the representatives
of developing countries, China is responsible for “common but distinguishing duty for global climate
change.” Many policies have been made to develop low-carbon economy with the hope to advocate and
innovate low-carbon economy in some industries and cities during these years. Therefore, it is a theoretical
and innovative project to find out a low-carbon economical model for various industries and carry out
the experiments of low-carbon economy in some cities. Hence, guided by low-carbon economy theory,
choosing booming Chinese tourism industry as the object, this chapter tries to construct an operation
framework system of low-carbon tourism development from the advantage of low-carbon tourism to
the proposal of low-carbon tourism definition so as to conclude an execution scheme of “six elements”
of low-carbon tourism with selecting OCT East (Chinese national ecotourism demonstration district)
and Mt. Danxia (World Geo-park) as demonstration districts to discuss about models and methods of
low-carbon economy in tourism.
