Energy Utilization of Catering Operators and Their Carbon Offset Behaviors—A Survey on 159 Samples in 10 National Forest Parks in Jiangxi

Abstract

Climate and environmental problems caused by global carbon emissions are becoming more and more prominent. As a major implementer of carbon emissions, their energy structure and willingness of carbon offset plays an important role in the low carbon development of forest tourism. Based on the effective questionnaire survey and interviews of 159 operators in 10 national forest parks in Jiangxi Province, this paper studies the energy use and carbon offset willingness of catering owners in forest tour sites. The results show that: (1) the energy used by the catering operators is mainly gas, electricity, coal, natural gas, solar energy, firewood and biogas, etc. The expenditures are mostly between RMB 5,000 and RMB 19,900, of which the curve is normal distributed. (2) operators had a strong willingness to adopt new energy, 86.1% of whom are for it, and government incentives will promote their willingness to act.(3) all samples agreed that their business activities generated carbon emissions, but more than 90% of them believe that their carbon emissions are of small quantity.(4) the operator's willingness to carbon offset is strong. 85% of the operators agreed for the duties of offsetting their carbon emissions or some extra. The means of carbon offset is mainly based on afforestation or payment.