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Tourism industry significantly enhances consumption, creates employment, and becomes a new engine of economic growth worldwide. However, tourism-led growth is attained at the cost of environmental damages, as tourism-related activities require higher energy consumption. We also included globalization, energy consumption, and economic growth to normalize the tourism industry sub-sectors environmental impacts. The ARDL bound testing and Gradual shift causality methods are used to analyze the environmental impacts of the tourism industry for the data spanning from 2001Q1 to 2019Q4. The outcomes indicate that tourism-related food and beverage services contribute to higher greenhouse gas emissions, especially N₂O and CH₄. However, compared with other sub-sectors, CO₂ is primarily contributed by the tourism-traveling sector in the long run. Similarly, the food and beverages services also …