The Relationship between International Inbound Tourism Income and CO2 Emissions: Based on ARDL-ECM Approach

This paper establishes an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and use bond test to analyze the relationship between International Inbound Tourism Income and CO₂ emissions. Based on the evidence data from 1995 to 2018, the paper derived three results. First, International Inbound Tourism and CO₂ emissions have cointegration. Second, the long trip income and catering service income of international inbound tourism have positive effects on CO₂ emissions in long-run. Third, long trip income and catering service income of international inbound tourism would dynamically fluctuate CO₂ emissions in short run.