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space of tour activity to influence the de-
velopment of whole sector. According to
report of world tourism organization, cli-
mate change may shock tourism around
northern Europe, Mediterranean sea and
Caribbean area. What's more, least ad-
vanced countries and coastal, mountainous
area and those regions easy to be affected
by natural factors in Small Island countries
may confront with more severe situation,
and global warming may change visitor's
choice about tour destination. Moreover,
in specific location, developing construc-
tion of scenic spot, tour transportation fa-
cilities, hotel catering facilities and visitors
activity will damage primary ecological
environment to affect tourism resource tre-
mendously. In order to achieve sustainable
development of tourism, it has to handle
with climate change actively to initiate self
rescue to improve operating development
model.
ing low-carbon life to be the experimental
field for people experiencing low-carbon
life around them. So this unconscious
guidance will gradually root low-carbon
awareness into people's mind and life.
At present, there appears some low-carbon
experience activities in tourism, for example,
global online travel company Travelocity and
Expedia launched package service named “carbon
neutralization”. Clients pay some dollars more,
enterprise and organization will offset CO
2
pro-
duced by their travel activity with planting trees
and other environmental friendly projects; Those
transportation with less or no pollution such as
environmental friendly sightseeing vehicles, elec-
tromobiles, animal-drawn vehicles, rickshaw etc
will be used in scenic spot to protect ecological
environment; what's more, Ctrip travel network
introduced the scheme of “ carbon compensation”,
that is to plant corresponding number of trees to
have “carbon compensation” according to CO
2
emission during passengers' flight.
As an important part of the third industry,
tourism bears more advantage and possibility
to develop low-carbon economy compared with
other third industries. It is predictable that tourism
can be the pioneer of low-carbon economy move-
ment in the third industry even all over the world
which is mainly decided by social environment
and characteristics of tourism.
First, Tourism develops powerfully, and there is
increasing demand for market low-carbonization,
so tourism is able to take the responsibility to
play the leading role for low-carbon economy.
As mentioned above, tourism belongs to the third
industry, and it is the sector needs to be greatly
developed. Proportion of increase value of the
third industry in developed courtiers in GDP has
exceed that of the second industry, it actually is
an assessment index of a country's economic
development situation. What's more, energy
consumption and pollutant emission of the third
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The origination of public low-carbon
awareness and population of low-carbon
life requires tourism's guidance and mo-
tivation. One of important meanings of
“low-carbon economy” not only urges
manufacture to quickly give up poor pro-
duction capacity with high consumption
and pollution, also refer to guide people
reflect those bad habits with wasting en-
ergy and increasing emission and pollution
so that huge potential of energy saving and
emission reduction in consumption and
life can be fully cultivated (Zhang Y. P.,
2009). Low-carbon economy eventually
depends on low-carbon lifestyle to foster
public consciousness of low-carbon life
to consciously accept simple and concise
lifestyle. Since recreation and tourism has
become an important part of life, there are
a lot of people from broad regions partici-
pating in tourism activity. Tourism enjoys
absolute advantage of spreading and guid-
