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Proposal of Low-Carbon Economy
with the impact from travel activity, preservation
of natural and social environment, improvement
of sector's health and sustainable development.
They contain difference and similarity in concep-
tion and connotation. (See Table 1)
Sustainable tourism development is a develop-
ment notion benefit for tourism long-term healthy
and sustainable development proposed by tourism
with consideration of their dependence on natural
and humane environment to move on sustain-
able development idea after the submission of
the conception “sustainable development” from
well-known Brundtland Report of The United
Nations World Commission on Environment and
Development in 1987. While ecology tourism is
a tour form, but so far it has is no unified defi-
nition. It is way to realized sustainable tourism
development proposed on the base of sustainable
tourism development notion. However, ecology
tourism emphasizes a coordinative development of
economy, society, environment and culture, espe-
cially the development of destination community.
As the name of low-carbon economy developing in
tourism, “low-carbon tourism” is originated from
“low-carbon economy”. Low-carbon economy is a
tourism form which discharges low CO 2 emission,
that is a kind of tourism form to calculate and con-
trol emission of CO 2 in tour activities to decrease
its emission and try to compensate released carbon
with some actions. So “low-carbon tourism” can
be called as an environmental friendly tourism in
deeper level and it is an important part in tourism
sustainable development as well.
Nowadays, there is no definite and unified
conception for low-carbon tourism, but it is a
low consumption and emission travel form with
the target of ecology and environment protection.
And it is a specific presenting form and applica-
tion way for tourism sustainable development
similar with ecological tourism. In fact, the idea
of sustainable tourism development, ecology tour-
ism, low-carbon tourism is submitted for handling
Table 1. Definition and connotation comparison of sustainable tourism, ecology tourism and low-carbon
tourism
Sustainable tourism development
Eco-tourism
Low-carbon tourism
Definition and
intonation
When maintaining and improving prospec-
tive chance for development, it should meet
the needs of visitors and local people. It will
safeguard the fairness to help people achieve
social, economic and esthetic satisfaction in
the process on protection of cultural com-
pleteness, basic ecology process and bio-di-
versity and life-maintenance system. (Global
90'world conference file «Action strategy on
sustainable tourism development»)
It is a principal tour from visitors
to natural district which not only
requires the protection of the com-
pleteness of ecology environment
and local culture, but also maintains
and improves the living standards of
local residents. (International eco-
tourism Association,1993)
It is a kind of tourism form
to calculate and control the
emission of CO 2 , and try to
reduce the emission, and
then take action to offset the
discharged carbon.
Implication
· Development of tourism should realize the
coordination between nature, society, culture
and eco-environment.
·When maintaining and improving tourism
development, it should ensure that all the
people and their offspring, visitors and local
people can receive equal satisfaction.
·Emphasizing fairness includes the fairness
in the same generation and among different
generations.
· It is a kind of tourism with the
functions of conserving natural and
cultural resource and improving
community economic development.
·Its negative effect on environment is
within environment bearing capacity.
·It is a principal's travel and they
play the role of environmental
education to visitors and local com-
munity.
·Emphasizing mutual coordination
between economy, environment,
culture and society.
· It fosters low-carbon life
consciousness to take re-
sponsible tourism activity to
reduce the emission of CO 2 in
the whole process.
·Taking the activity of carbon
neutralization to neutralize
the discharged CO 2 to protect
global environment.
·Emphasizing the role of
tourism is to enjoy healthy
environment and to oblige to
create healthy environment
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