How does energy investment affect the energy utilization-growth-tourism nexus? Evidence from E7 Countries

Tourism is an important driver of economic growth for several countries in the world. However, rise tourism activities has raised concerns regarding emissions resulting from tourist such as transportation well consequent effect on quality environment. Hence, this study examines impact and other factors investments, energy utilization carbondioxide (CO 2 ) emission emerging industrialized seven namely (China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia Turkey) period 2000 to 2018. The uses Pool Mean Group Autoregressive Distributed Lag (PMG-ARDL), ordinal least square (OLS), dynamic ordinals (DOLS) fully modified (FMOLS) estimators Dumitrescu Hurlin Causality Test. Long run regression estimates reveal that a increase lower E7 which can be traced adoption environmentally friendly tourism. Furthermore, investment growth, majority results point both (E7) while consumption CO countries. suggests implementation sustained continually improve natural environment blocs. Similarly, strict regulations line with protection are advised use renewable needed reduce