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Article

The Nexus between Tourism Activities and Environmental Degradation: Romanian Tourists’ Opinions

by
Mirela Ștefănică
1,
Christiana Brigitte Sandu
2,
Gina Ionela Butnaru
1,* and
Alina-Petronela Haller
3
1
Department of Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, 700505 Iași, Romania
2
Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, 700505 Iași, Romania
3
Gheorghe Zane Institute for Economic and Social Research, Iași Branch of Romanian Academy, 700488 Iași, Romania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9210; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169210
Submission received: 25 June 2021 / Revised: 8 August 2021 / Accepted: 14 August 2021 / Published: 17 August 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Impact and Nature Conservation)
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Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the nexus between tourism activities, including tourists’ circulation, accommodation or entertainment, and environmental degradation. Consequently, the conceptual framework captures the complexity of the nexus between tourism and the environment, given that tourism activities can be performed by tourists or for tourists and that tourism depends on the environmental quality, and, consequently, we highlight the impact of tourism activities on biodiversity loss through the pollution effects that they generate, i.e., air pollution, water pollution, or noise pollution, as well as their contribution to waste increase or to the depletion of natural resources. To achieve this goal, we apply structural equation modelling based on partial least squares analysis (PLS). The results based on tourists’ opinions highlight the existence of a direct and significant nexus between tourists’ activities and environmental degradation, with many implications and consequences.
Keywords: tourism activities; environmental degradation; biodiversity loss; pollution; PLS-SEM tourism activities; environmental degradation; biodiversity loss; pollution; PLS-SEM

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Ștefănică, M.; Sandu, C.B.; Butnaru, G.I.; Haller, A.-P. The Nexus between Tourism Activities and Environmental Degradation: Romanian Tourists’ Opinions. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9210. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169210

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Ștefănică M, Sandu CB, Butnaru GI, Haller A-P. The Nexus between Tourism Activities and Environmental Degradation: Romanian Tourists’ Opinions. Sustainability. 2021; 13(16):9210. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169210

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Ștefănică, Mirela, Christiana Brigitte Sandu, Gina Ionela Butnaru, and Alina-Petronela Haller. 2021. "The Nexus between Tourism Activities and Environmental Degradation: Romanian Tourists’ Opinions" Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9210. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169210

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Ștefănică, M., Sandu, C. B., Butnaru, G. I., & Haller, A.-P. (2021). The Nexus between Tourism Activities and Environmental Degradation: Romanian Tourists’ Opinions. Sustainability, 13(16), 9210. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169210

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