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Soumen Rej1,2, Arunava Bandyopadhyay2, Muntasir Murshed3,4
1GITAM Institute of Management, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Vishakhapatnam, 530045, India.
Abstract:
The paradigm of sustainable tourism policy implications aims to prioritize the decoupling association between tourism development and environmental deterioration. The study revisits the dynamic associations among carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth, international tourism, education, renewable energy consumption, and gross capital formation for the case of India through the lens of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis framework. The long-run dynamics among the variables confirm the inverted U-shaped environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for India. The regression findings affirm that higher international tourist arrivals, renewable energy use, and gross capital formation curb emissions in the long run. Besides, the coefficient of the interaction term between tourist arrivals and capital formation is evidenced to be positive implying capital formation has not been conducive in the pathway of sustainable tourism practices. On the other hand, the negative coefficient of the interaction term between education index and renewable energy consumption unveils the importance of educational advancement in the pathway of renewable energy penetration to thrive environmental sustainability. This study concludes with some policy suggestions to be incorporated within the existing ecological and energy approaches that may aid India in practicing the smooth functioning of low-carbon tourism models.
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