Abstract
Beijing is the capital of China, and also one of the most-visited cities in China. There is great exemplary significance to promote energy-saving and emission-reduction of Beijing tourism industry. According to the sum of three major consumption indicators in tourism – transportation, accommodation and activities, we can estimate that the total energy consumption of Beijing tourism is 36.07 PJ in 2008, about 8.32% of the energy consumption nationwide, which indicates that there is a great potential in energy-saving and emission-reduction in Beijing tourism.
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This study is Supported by the Beijing philosophy and social science planning project (11ZDA09), and Beijing International Studies University project (2011).We would like to thank Professor Gu Huimin (The School of Tourism Management, Beijing International Studies University)for her kind guidance on the writing ideas and Gao Jingjing (postgraduate of The School of Tourism Management, Beijing International Studies University) for her endeavor in the data preparing.
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Feng, L., Cheng, L. (2013). Estimation of the Energy Consumption in Tourism Industry of Beijing City. In: Zhang, Z., Zhang, R., Zhang, J. (eds) LISS 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32054-5_177
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