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it indicates generous support and guide from all
countries in the world, especially the developed
countries. As a sunrise industry, tourism has the
ability and responsibility to stand at the frontier
of low-carbon economy. Meanwhile, low-carbon
economy has swept the world since its appearance
at the end of last century. Because it is more than
a new slogan of human's protection to the earth,
it is actually the terminal aim for people's pursuit
for healthy life to achieve sustainable development
in post-industrialization age. All these push some
people (most of them are from western countries)
to chase for low-carbon life, to respond its call
to reduce and neutralize their carbon emission in
life and journey. And this market demand con-
forms to world development principle. Tourism
is able to actively develop market and promote its
expansion. Therefore, tourism possesses certain
condition to transfer to low-carbon economy un-
der the environment of world economic structure
adjustment and tourism market demand.
Second, tourism industry's characteristic
makes its acceptance and execution on notion of
low-carbon economy more accessible and adapt-
able, and it can enter low-carbonized procedure
initially (Li T. Y., 2006). Tourism is firstly a
labor-intensive service sector, so its product is
the service mainly presented by labor services.
Though overall tourism products contain some
physical elements, in terms of a complete tour
experience, what tourists get from it is satisfaction
of psychological and spiritual needs which is a
“memory” to tour experience. Tourism involves
a lot of fields; however, its industry technology
is not as strict as sectors like resource, chemi-
cal industry, metallurgy that needs technology
innovation and reform to reduce emission in
production process. While main fields of low-
carbonized tourism is presented in scenic spot
exploitive construction and three aspects such as
foods and beverages, accommodation and travel
which indicates to change extensive construction
operation method to transfer to ecological recycle
tourists' ideological quality to cut unnecessary
energy consumption. This characteristic of tour-
ism is the root to comply with the tendency from
extensive to intensive economy to meet the need
of low-carbon economy. Secondly, the target of
low-carbon economy shares the common ground
with the logics of tourism sustainable develop-
ment which build foundation for tourism accept-
ing low-carbon economic thought and joining
in low-carbon economic movement. Because of
the resource and environmental dependence of
tourism, the issues on the coordination between
tourism development and environment have been
discussed for about 20 years. Sustainable develop-
ment is actively called for and propagandized by
government, scholars and medium. And the criteria
and target of tourism sustainable development has
been approved by most of people. Social, envi-
ronmental, cultural impact and counterstrategies
of tourism development has got long-term atten-
tion and study from scholars and experts. Thirdly,
with strong driving power, tourism can connect
with various traditional and independent sectors
that can meet tourists' satisfaction by offering
service, and its booming growth will motivate
other sectors' development. Similarly, Carrying
out low-carbon economic movement in tourism
will produce imperceptible influence on other
sectors to gradually change traditional structure
of some sectors to push their low-carbonization
to adapt to the need of travel activity and demand
change of tourists.
Though tourism is able and possible to execute
low-carbonization, with wide and many involved
fields, the construction of low-carbon economy
can not be done in a short time. It needs great ef-
forts and exploitation of all relevant sectors in a
long economic developing course to seek suitable
low-carbonized operation frame, economic model
and index system.
