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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Katircioglu, Salih Turan

Titel

Testing the tourism-induced EKC hypothesis: The case of Singapore

Ist Teil von

• Economic modelling, 2014-08, Vol.41, p.383-391

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study investigates the relationship between tourism development and carbon emissions in Singapore through testing Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, which is a major tourist destination state and whose economy is linked with diverse energy resources, high-level urbanization, and rapid industrialization. Results reveal that tourism development and carbon emissions are in long-term equilibrium relationship; carbon dioxide emission converges to its long-term equilibrium level by 76.0% speed of adjustment through the channels of tourism, energy consumption, and output growth. Tourist arrivals have a negatively significant effects on carbon dioxide emission levels both in the long-term and the short-term periods. Finally, results of the Granger causality tests reveal that there is unidirectional causality that runs from tourism development to carbon emission growth in the long-term of the economy of Singapore. Therefore, the tourism-induced EKC hypothesis is confirmed in the case of Singapore. •Singapore has diverse energy resources and rapid industrialization.•Tourism is the locomotive of its economy as investigated in the literature.•The present study finds that tourism impacts negatively on climate change.•This study finds that tourism induced EKC hypothesis is confirmed.•The study concludes with inverted U-shape with tourism in Singapore.