" Low Carbon Tour " of the concept in 2009 May world economic forum" towards a low carbon travel and tourism" put forward in the report. The report shows, tourism carbon emissions account for 5% of world total. Currently comes from tourism carbon emissions of about 2.5% of the average annual growth rate. Therefore, tourism industry has a certain energy saving space.
Low carbon Tourism connotation is it is a center with the environment, in order to reduce harm to environment as the focus, with low energy consumption, low pollution, low-emission based tourism economy mode. It involves all aspects of tourism, in does not reduce the quality at the same time in the process of tourism for saving energy and reducing emissions of carbon dioxide. The production process includes tourism infrastructure, product development, service delivery; tourism consumption in the process of food, housing, entertainment, travel, buy, each link can reduce carbon emissions.
Carbon-neutral travel refers to Carbon offsetting. Its philosophy is to pass investment, the donor or the purchase form, support devoted to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the project company, to offset the people to travel in producing carbon dioxide.
Characteristic
1 change the existing mode of travel, advocate public transportation and hybrid vehicles, bicycles and other low carbon or carbon, but also enrich tourism life, increase tourism project.
2 reverse extravagant wind, strengthening clean, convenient, comfortable function, enhance the cultural brand.
3 to strengthen the tourism of intelligent development, improve operational efficiency, timely and comprehensive introduction of energy-saving emission reduction technology, reduces the carbon footprint, culminating in the formation of the industry chain of circular economy mode.
As a tourism development mode, low-carbon tourism development dependent departments, tourism enterprises, tourist of all parties involved. To the internal factors in the success of low carbon tourism:
1 construction of low carbon Tourism Attraction
Low carbon tourism attraction can be all kinds of natural low carbon landscape, also can be low carbon landscape, also can be various low carbon Tourism products. Low carbon tourism attraction construction can be a way to develop low-carbon tourism area planning, low carbon tourism activities, the transformation of low carbon industrial zone, repair the damaged area restoration of low carbon appearance
2 construction of low carbon tourism facilities
One is to transform or build process of low carbon materials used; two is running in the process of low carbon emissions. Construction of low carbon tourism facilities is the main way of energy saving and emission reduction technology and new energy technology applications
3 low carbon consumption
Low carbon consumption mainly refers to the tourists in the consumption process through a variety of ways to reduce an individual's carbon dioxide emissions. Consumers to use public transport, walking, cycling and other low carbon transport mode, no disposable tableware, select the green hotel, store, in low carbon Tourism activities.