An Examination of the Impact of Climate Change on International Inbound Tourism: Insights From China

IF 4.1 3区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

International Journal of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI:10.1002/jtr.70057

Yang Yu, Yaping Gong, Yanxi Tao, DooHwan Won, Guojie Zhang

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Abstract

Although inbound tourism growth has been facing an increasing threat from global climate change, there still exists insufficient understanding regarding the long-term impacts of climate change on tourism demand in non-Western contexts. By considering other main explanatory variables, which have been largely overlooked among extant literature, the study examined the impacts of climate change on the Chinese inbound tourism market using the generalized method of moments model and panel data spanning 30 years and across 20 countries. The results revealed that the relationship between a location's temperature and inbound tourism demand is negative and an increase in temperature resulted in a decrease in international visitors traveling to China. In addition to offering a more robust and reliable assessment of the relationship between climate change and inbound tourism demand, the research represents one of the early attempts to advance understandings of the long-term impacts of climate change in non-Western developing countries.

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气候变化对国际入境旅游的影响：来自中国的见解

尽管全球气候变化对入境旅游增长的威胁越来越大，但人们对气候变化对非西方国家旅游需求的长期影响认识不足。在考虑其他主要解释变量的基础上，利用广义矩量模型和20个国家30年的面板数据，研究了气候变化对中国入境旅游市场的影响。结果表明，气温与入境旅游需求呈负相关关系，气温升高导致来华国际游客减少。除了对气候变化和入境旅游需求之间的关系提供更有力和可靠的评估外，该研究还代表了对气候变化在非西方发展中国家的长期影响的理解的早期尝试之一。

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International Journal of Tourism Research HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Tourism Research promotes and enhances research developments in the field of tourism. The journal provides an international platform for debate and dissemination of research findings whilst also facilitating the discussion of new research areas and techniques. IJTR continues to add a vibrant and exciting channel for those interested in tourism and hospitality research developments. The scope of the journal is international and welcomes research that makes original contributions to theories and methodologies. It continues to publish high quality research papers in any area of tourism, including empirical papers on tourism issues. The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism, such as economics, marketing, sociology and statistics. All papers are subject to strict double-blind (or triple-blind) peer review by the international research community.