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This study examines the influence of tourism and economic growth on CO2 emissions; using panel data of selected Asia-Pacific countries for 1995–2013 are performed to examine the long-run relationship between economic growth, tourism, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions through testing Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. Tourist arrivals have significant positive effects on carbon dioxide emission levels in long-run. The results of the Granger causality test that unidirectional causality from energy consumption to tourism arrivals and unidirectional causality from CO2 emissions to tourism arrivals for Asia-Pacific countries.
Shakouri et al. (2017) studied this question.