CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY DEMAND AND TOURISM IN AFRICA
Walter Okwudili Ugwuoke (Ph.D.) and Jummai Sabo Ogumka
Volume 5 Issue 2
Abstract
Globally, the demand for fossil fuel is one of the greatest threats to climate change and tourism. Sequel to this, opposing strands of literature exist on the impact of climate change on economic growth. However, economic implication of climate change is beyond economic growth as it affects other sensitive African reliant sector like tourism. Also, checkmating fossil fuel consumption has been consistently advocated as a viable response to containing climate change to mitigate its effect on the tourism but, there is paucity of research to this fact especially in African continent. It is against this backdrop that this paper investigated climate change, energy demand and tourism in Africa. This objective was achieved using two stage system generalized method of moment (2SSGM) and Dynamic Correlation Common Effect (DCCE) mechanisms. The findings from the analysis suggests that while precipitation (PREP) and temperature (TEMP) are significant climate change variables influencing tourism arrivals in Africa, carbon monoxide CO2 emission is insignificant statistically in influencing tourism arrivals in the region. On this note, the study recommends that cleaner energy that will reduce climate change so as enhance tourism arrivals in Africa should be incorporated in the regional energy plans. Keyword: Climate change, Energy demand, Tourism Africa
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