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constructing various management organizations
as tourism development department, and making
relevant management system. iv) It can encourage
and motivate more social capital joining in low-
carbon tourism development by inputting special
capital to support low-carbon tourism economic
development.
Secondly, the global has entered the times of
“low-carbon” economy in twenty-first century.
Since The United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change in 1992 and Kyoto Protocol
in 1997 had started to talked about low-carbon
economy systematically. In 2003, British President
Mr. Tony Blair initially proposed the conception
of “Low-carbon economy” in resource white book
Our energy future: establishment of low-carbon
economy . Developing low-carbon economy has
caught increasing attention all over the world.
There follows a series of new words and names
such as low-carbon, carbon footprint, low-carbon
economy, low-carbon technology, low-carbon
development, low-carbon economical demonstra-
tion district, carbon productivity, carbon trade
market, low-carbon life style, low-carbon society,
low-carbon city, low-carbon world to create a new
low-carbon era globally. Under the background
of increasing global warming and booming low-
carbon economy, as the modern service sector
with the characteristics of low consumption,
little pollution, big employment demand and low
technology requirement which benefits for low-
carbon economy, tourism will actively respond the
great tendency of global low-carbon economy to
develop low-carbon tourism vigorously.
Thirdly, there is a growing prominent problem
for global warming. People begin to reflect the
way for traditional economic growth and come to
realize the importance of environment protection.
Thus people are starting to focus on the methods
of controlling pollution, think about the relation
among resource, economy and environment,
and then consider about the styles of production,
consumption and life etc. with the clue of green
for economic growth with reducing CO 2 emission,
which is named as low-carbon economy to start the
times of global low carbonization. People come to
transform their own styles of production, life and
survival from carbon, carbon source and carbon
sink etc. Hence, low-carbon environmental-
friendly awareness is on way of growth.
Inner drive mainly refers to the market
pull, the demand of tourism enterprise, the
essential requirement of sustainable de-
velopment of tourism, the need of human
settlements improvement etc.
Firstly, only tourism enterprises developing
low-carbon tourism actively and creatively can
realize sustainable development of tourism more
efficiently. Therefore, the pull force of market
economic approach is the core power to realize
low-carbon tourism. Market pull mechanism
mainly covers:
i. Adopting economic or political tools such as
market price, tax, charge, finance, respon-
sibility or compensation flexibly to initiate
the power of low-carbon tourism's compre-
hensive effect, to mobilize the enthusiasm
of tourism market entity, to improve the
construction of good market mechanism of
low-carbon tourism and to realize low con-
sumption, low pollution, low emission and
high efficiency of tourism. For example, at
present, some countries have increased the
tax on green house gas emission and envi-
ronment, started carbon trade market and
drafted low-carbon technology development
funds etc.
ii. Visitors are eager to go back to nature, so
this kind of demand makes green tourism
and ecology tourism into fashion which
stimulates tourism enterprises such as
hotels, restaurants, tourism areas to make
great efforts to green certification. As the
development and enhancement of ecol-
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