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Journal of Cleaner Production xxx (2014) 1 e9 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Cleaner Production journal homepage: /locate/jclepro Calculating tourisms carbon footprint: measuring the impact of investments * María A. Cadarso , Nuria Gomez, Luis A. Lopez, María A. Tobarra University of Castilla-La Mancha, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Entrepreneurial Plaza de la Universidad n. 2, 02071 Albacete, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this paper, we propose broadening the concept of tourisms carbon footprint to include not only Received 30 November 2013 emissions embodied in tourism consumption but also emissions linked to the investments of the tourism Received in revised form sector. The measure proposed, the whole carbon footprint, implies allocating the emissions linked to the 3 September 2014 production of capital goods required for tourism goods and services to this sector. The omission of in- Accepted 6 September 2014 Available online xxx vestments, e.g., the construction of hotels and infrastructures, leads to an underestimation of the tourism sectors environmental responsibility. The methodology is based on a life cycle assessment inputeoutput (LCA-IO) model that we apply to the Spanish tourism sector for the period of 1995e2007. Keywords: Tourism