Abstract
Tourism is always known as low-carbon industry, but low-carbon emission does not mean no-carbon emission. The correlation effects between tourism and other industries makes tourism a necessary part in dealing with energy-consumption efficiency and carbon-reduction. However, calculation of carbon emissions is rather difficult because of the intricate connections between tourism and other industries. In this paper, the “from bottom to top” method is applied to estimating the tourism carbon emissions in Hubei province. And the result shows the tourism carbon emissions were about 3.4006MT in Hubei province in 2013, among which travel transportation took up about 95.7%, far beyond the national and world proportion. Therefore, travel transportation especially the expressway transportation and civil aviation transportation must be the key in the process of developing low-carbon tourism.
