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Explora: Environment
and Resource Carbon neutrality and low-carbon behavior in space tourism

providing valuable insights into the psychological factors tourism supply and demand under the “carbon neutrality”
that influence consumers’ decision-making processes conditions.
regarding sustainable tourism practices. By examining these
intentions, this research contributes to the understanding of 5.3. Limitations and future research
consumers’ attitudes toward environmental sustainability Every precaution was taken to ensure the objectivity,
in the context of space tourism, which can inform future reliability, and validity of the present study, but some
research and industry practices aimed at promoting more limitations were identified. These limitations can be
sustainable tourism options. overcome in future studies. First of all, college students
5.2. Practical implications constituted a large portion of the current sample, which
was not diverse and representative in terms of the actual
5.2.1. Raising public awareness of low-carbon space populations; therefore, the sampling range and sample
tourism size should be expanded in further studies. Secondly,
Tourism authorities should fully interpret the development this study is a cross-sectional study; thus, different study
requirements of the “carbon neutrality” industry, establish designs should be attempted for future studies. Thirdly,
a high-quality, low-carbon space tourism environment this study used purposive sampling and included only
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through carbon regulation of space tourism enterprises 1 -time visitors. In the future, a comparative analysis of
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and carbon constraints in the tourism market, and the motivations of 1 -time and repeat visitors and their
strengthen the publicity and popularization of peak carbon impact on visitors’ perspectives and attitudes of the travel
and carbon neutrality. destinations could be conducted. Fourth, future studies
should consider other variables in similar contexts. Finally,
5.2.2. Entrusting relevant tourism stakeholders with our study was geographically limited to China’s context,
corporate responsibilities warranting an expansion of the research context to other
Space tourism enterprises have strengthened investment regions.
in technological elements, reduced energy consumption in
space tourism supply, implemented low-carbon concepts, Acknowledgments
provided low-carbon products, and emphasized the low- None.
carbon concept pertaining to space tourism through
marketing and publicity. The image of the space tourism Funding
market is shaped to conform to the psychology of mass None.
consumption. Thus, encouraging the modernization of
low-carbon space tourism services and the industry’s Conflict of interest
sustainable development are crucial.
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
5.2.3. Adjusting the rational balance between supply
and demand for space tourism Author contributions
Enterprises and the government can create a favorable Conceptualization: All authors
environment for low-carbon space tourism through Formal analysis: Linghui Liang
a reasonable balance of tourism supply and demand. Investigation: Linghui Liang
Having a general awareness of tourism is key to uniting Methodology: All authors
the industry, bringing out the advantages of low-carbon Writing – original draft: Linghui Liang
space tourism products, and promoting the development Writing – review & editing: All authors
of space tourism. It is essential to increase public awareness
of carbon emissions, absorption, and sinks related to Ethics approval and consent to participate
tourism and encourage their participation in the process. Not applicable.
In addition, “carbon neutrality” must be interpreted with
a realistic and objective material basis. The supply side of Consent for publication
space tourism can be refined and fed back by monitoring
tourists’ motivations and cognitive processes. On the other Not applicable.
hand, tourists’ attitudes and perceptions of the effects Availability of data
of tourism development are important elements and
assessment bases for ensuring the sustainable development Data is available from the corresponding author upon
of the tourism industry and realizing a virtuous cycle of reasonable request.

Volume 2 Issue 1 (2025) 11 doi: 10.36922/eer.3655