Assessing International Tourism's Global Environmental Impact of Food and Beverages

Lochman, Josef; Vagner, Jiří

doi:10.35784/preko.5425

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Assessing International Tourism's Global Environmental Impact of Food and Beverages

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Lochman Josef , Vagner Jiří

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10.35784/preko.5425

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Ocena globalnego wpływu żywności i napojów z turystyki na środowisko

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Tourism harms the environment in many ways and agriculture is of particular importance because of a wide range of negative impacts, the specific spatial conditionality of tourists' consumption, and the change in their eating habits during travel. Despite the urgency of previous research, the environmental requirements of tourist consumption have not yet been quantified. The main aim of the paper is thus quantify in the long term the total amount of food consumed in international tourism and assess its environmental impacts: land use, water requirements, and emitted emissions. Furthermore, we deal with the projection of these impacts associated with meat consumption up to 2050. The investigation uses long-term secondary data on the number of tourists, national diets, and environmental requirements of foodstuffs. According to our research, 15.6 million tonnes of food was consumed globally in 2010 and this amount increased to 24.5 in 2019. Due to COVID-19, the amount decreased by 72%. Although vegetal foodstuffs account for a larger share of the total, the environmental requirements are primarily associated with animal foodstuffs. Compared to daily at-home eating, tourists’ consumption patterns, e.g., higher preference for meat or whole grains, increase the environmental requirements by more than 10%. This research serves destination management bodies and concludes that the food environmental impacts should be the subject of adequate measures that would mitigate them and would make tourism more sustainable.

Turystyka szkodzi środowisku na wiele sposobów, a rolnictwo ma szczególne znaczenie ze względu na szeroki zakres negatywnych oddziaływań, specyficzną przestrzenną uwarunkowaność konsumpcji turystów i zmianę ich nawyków żywieniowych w trakcie podróży. Wymagania środowiskowe związane z konsumpcją turystyczną nie zostały jeszcze określone ilościowo. Głównym celem artykułu jest zatem określenie ilościowe w dłuższej perspektywie całkowitej ilości żywności spożywanej w turystyce międzynarodowej oraz ocena jej wpływu na środowisko: użytkowanie gruntów, zapotrzebowanie na wodę i emitowane emisje. Ponadto zajmujemy się projekcją tych skutków związanych ze spożyciem mięsa do roku 2050. W badaniu wykorzystano długoterminowe dane wtórne dotyczące liczby turystów, diety poszczególnych krajów oraz wymagań środowiskowych artykułów spożywczych. Z naszych badań wynika, że w 2010 roku na świecie skonsumowano 15,6 mln ton żywności, a w 2019 roku ilość ta wzrosła do 24,5. W związku z COVID-19 ilość ta spadła o 72%. Chociaż roślinne środki spożywcze stanowią większą część całości, wymagania środowiskowe dotyczą przede wszystkim środków spożywczych pochodzenia zwierzęcego. W porównaniu z codziennym jedzeniem w domu, wzorce konsumpcji turystów, np. większa preferencja dla mięsa lub produktów pełnoziarnistych, zwiększają wymagania środowiskowe o ponad 10%. Badanie to służy organom zarządzającym miejscami docelowymi i stwierdza, że wpływ żywności na środowisko powinien być przedmiotem odpowiednich środków, które mogłyby je złagodzić i uczynić turystykę bardziej zrównoważoną.

Słowa kluczowe

food consumption environmental requirements natural resources sustainable development goals tourism

konsumpcja żywności wymagania środowiskowe zasoby naturalne cele zrównoważonego rozwoju turystyka

Wydawca

Lublin University of Technology

Czasopismo

Problemy Ekorozwoju

Rocznik

2024

Tom

Vol. 19, no. 1

Strony

296--307

Opis fizyczny

Bibliogr. 41 poz., fig., tab.

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Lochman Josef

lochmaj@natur.cuni.cz

Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (Czechia)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7092-1476

autor

Vagner Jiří

Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (Czechia)

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7151-7849

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