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Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of environmental efficiency for China’s hotel sector: new evidence through metafrontier global Malmquist-Luenberger

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With the adding of tourist volume in China, carbon emissions from hotel sector increased greatly. Environmental efficiency of hotel sector considering technology heterogeneity is mainly analyzed across different regions of China from 2000 to 2013. Metafrontier global Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) is implemented to evaluate environmental efficiency of hotel sector. Furthermore, we analyze whether technology heterogeneity of different regions increased or not through technological gap ratio. The empirical analysis revealed that the east had the highest environmental efficiency under metafrontier after 2009. After 2009, technological gap ratio (TGR) in the east ranked highest among four regions in China. Environmental regulation positively impacts environmental efficiency under group frontier of hotel sector in the model of nation, east, and middle. Urbanization has U-shaped link with environmental efficiency of hotel sector for the east. It is important to strengthen environmental regulation to reduce carbon emissions. Last, it is important to enhance consciousness of energy abating and carbon emissions reduction of hotel customers.

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This study received financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 7191101006,71603105, 71673117); the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (No. NRF-2018S1A5A2A03036952); the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu, China (No. SBK2016042936); the Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No. 16YJC790067), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. 2017M610051, 2018T110054).

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  1. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Xingle Long

  2. School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China

    Xingle Long, Claudia Nyarko Mensah & Jijian Zhang

  3. Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK

    Xun Wang

  4. School of Liberal of Arts, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China

    Mingzhen Wang

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Long, X., Wang, X., Mensah, C.N. et al. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of environmental efficiency for China’s hotel sector: new evidence through metafrontier global Malmquist-Luenberger. Environ Sci Pollut Res 26, 27534–27541 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05963-9

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Keywords

  • Environmental efficiency
  • Heterogeneity
  • Urbanization