International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management

Special Issue

Low-Carbon Hospitality & Tourism Issues

  • Submission Deadline: Oct. 30, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Youyu Dai
About This Special Issue
In the past decades, low-carbon travel (LCT) has emerged as a topic of interest for the tourism industry and academia. Studies have offered reasons that tourists may engage in LCT. Carbon dioxide emissions resulting from travel and tourism activities account for 5%–14% of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions (World Tourism Organization & United Nations Environment Programme, 2008) and are rising at a rate of 3.2% per year (Peeters & Dubois, 2011).
Transportation (e.g., aircraft, cars, and boats), accommodation, and tourism activities represent the primary means by which tourism consumes energy and produces carbon emissions (Simpson, Gossling, Scott, Hall, & Gladin, 2008; Horng, Hu, Teng, & Lin, 2014). Sustrans (2007) and Simpson et al. (2008) have asserted that the rise in carbon emissions could be slowed if tourists consumed less energy and reduced their carbon emissions. Most tourists recognize the benefits of low-carbon activities but are reluctant to plan LCT activities (McKercher et al., 2010). Thus, promoting low-carbon travel (LCT) has become a topic of interest to the tourism industry and academic circles in the past ten to twenty years. This special issue therefore would like to identify low-carbon hospitality and tourism related studies from theoretical perspective to add academic contributions.

Aims and Scope:

  1. Low-carbon hospitality & tourism management
  2. Low-carbon hospitality & tourism marketing
  3. Low-carbon hospitality & tourism economics
  4. Low-carbon tourists behavior
  5. Low-carbon recreation and leisure activities
  6. Low-carbon hospitality & tourism education
Lead Guest Editor
  • Youyu Dai

    International Business School, Shandong Jiaotong University, Weihai, China

Guest Editors
  • Kuan-Yang Chen

    Rattanakosin International College of Creative Entrepreneurship, Rajamangala University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Xiaowei Jin

    International Business School, Shandong Jiaotong University, Weihai, China

  • Jinhua Chu

    International Business School, Shandong Jiaotong University, Weihai, China

  • Guo-Sheng Han

    Department of Tourism Management, Shandong University, Weihai, China

  • An-Jin Shie

    School of Economics and Management, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian, China

  • Xiao-Guang Yue

    Rattanakosin International College of Creative Entrepreneurship, Rajamangala University of Technologynational College of Creative Entrepreneurship, Rajamangala University of Technology, Thailand

  • Goddey Paul

    Research Centre, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

  • Asif Khan

    Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan