Environmental Engineering Reference
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Assumption on Operation
Framework System of Low-Carbon
Economy
What's more, sustainable tourism develop-
ment aims to meet people's satisfaction with
emphasizing the fairness between regions and
generations as well.
The notion of low-carbon tourism is a tourism
idea for realizing sustainable tourism develop-
ment. It adopts single measurement index to limit
CO
2
emission in travel to reduce green-house gas'
impact on global climate so as to contribute to
preserve global climate environment. Compared
with ecology tourism, low-carbon tourism does
not involve tourism community and its culture,
and there is a requirement to help and improve
local people's life. It just focuses on target, on
the responsibility for ecological environment of
tourism; and it also decomposes tourism's social
responsibility into the whole procedure with quite
clear notion and target (Liu X., 2009).
Because measurement index of low-carbon
tourism is simple, workable with broad coverage,
it is very easy to be propagandized and it also can
be used to test various sectors tourism involving
with popularity of application and is suitable for
various tourism activities all over the world.
Developing low-carbon economy is a brand-new
and complicated try for tourism which needs to
construct an inner linkage operation framework
including power system, supportive safeguard
system, main participants system and realized
target system guided by sustainable development
and low-carbon economy (See Figure 2).
If making a comparison of the low-carbon
tourism development to a future express of tour-
ism development, the four systems of the opera-
tion framework is the four wheels to ensure the
express heading to the destination normally and
safely. They are complementary and important.
Specifically speaking, each one plays the role as
follows:
•
Power subsystem guided by sustainable
development and low-carbon economy
consists with the inner drive and the outer
force. The former refers to the push from
intrinsic demand of tourism development,
Figure 2. Operation framework of low-carbon tourism
