Authors: Glauco de Vita Salih Katircioglu Levent Altinay Sami Fethi Mehmet Mercan
Publish Date: 2015/06/18
Volume: 22, Issue: 21, Pages: 16652-16663
Abstract
This study investigates empirically an extended version of the Environmental Kuznets Curve model that controls for tourism development We find that international tourist arrivals into Turkey alongside income squared income and energy consumption cointegrate with CO2 emissions Tourist arrivals growth and energy consumption exert a positive and significant impact on CO2 emissions in the longrun Our results provide empirical support to EKC hypothesis showing that at exponential levels of growth CO2 emissions decline The findings suggest that despite the environmental degradation stemming from tourism development policies aimed at environmental protection should not be pursued at the expense of tourismled growthHereby as the authors of this research article we confirm that we do not have any conflict of interest in publication We do also and understand and respect to ethics in publishing Therefore we confirm that our research has been designed and prepared according to these ethical issues Furthermore our research article is not submitted to and under review of any journal
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