Tourism Research.
2025, 17(1):
29-41.
Measuring the decoupling status of tourism carbon emissions in the Northwest region is
of great significance for the lowcarbon transformation and sustainable development of the region's
tourism industry, and for achieving the “ carbon peak carbon neutral” target on schedule. Using panel
statistical data from 2010 to 2021 , this article measures the tourism carbon emissions, tourism carbon
carrying capacity, tourism net carbon emissions, and the decoupling relationship between tourism
carbon emissions and tourism income in the Northwest region based on the tourism energy consumption
method, carbon sink vegetation area coefficient method, net carbon emissions method, and Tapio
decoupling model method. The results show that the total tourism carbon emissions, carbon carrying
capacity, and net tourism carbon emissions in the Northwest region have a V-shaped change pattern
with a turning point in 2019; the overall trend of per capita tourism carbon emissions in the region is
downward; among the five provinces and autonomous regions in the Northwest region, Shaanxi has
always been a tourism carbon source, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang have always been tourism carbon
sinks, and Ningxia has been in a tourism carbon balance; the decoupling relationship between tourism
carbon emissions and tourism income in the five provinces and autonomous regions of the Northwest
region is mainly in a weak decoupling state, with multiple decoupling states coexisting.