As the tourism industry’s greenhouse gas emission impacts on the global environment is
increasing, carbon accounting is fast becoming a vital tool for establishing the
magnitude of impacts and identifying the players responsible. The unique trip
characteristics of private and commercial vehicles in tourist destinations makes it difficult
to assess real impact levels.
This paper proposes a methodology for assessing the carbon footprint of Indirect
Tourism Transport (i.e. delivery and service vehicle operations), serving the tourism
industry. It described a unique data collection approach from tourism businesses and
transport operators, and how this information is processed and used to assess the
tourism industry’s supply chain carbon footprint. Distance and weight of load delivered to
the customer are considered the variables that determine carbon footprint in this
methodology.
The methodology could be used to account for tourism industry’s share of total carbon
footprint of commercial vehicle operations, on the basis of regional, national or
international tourist destinations in order to establish the sustainability of the industry’s
indirect transport. It could also act as a first generation forecasting model for assessing future carbon footprint projections, to be associated with tourism transport for tourist
destination planning purposes.[Show full abstract]
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