This report is made to briefly introduce some general information of Hue City and to
provide an inventory of GHG emissions of Hue’s tourism related activities in 2011. To
the latter end, fifty entities of different scales, which are engaged in tourism, have been
selected for the data collection with structured questionnaires and face – to – face
interviews. The multi-site inventory approach shows that among four sub-sectors of Hue
tourism, the ‘transport of tourists’ accounts for the largest share in terms of GHG
emission (367,686.4 tons of CO2 equivalent). For the site inventory which regards the
whole tourism sector as a single site, the final data analysis reveals that of Hue tourism’s
activities, the ‘travel’, particularly ‘travel by all tourists to Hue’, is the largest
contribution (373,303 tons CO2 equivalent) to the total GHG emission. The report also
attempts to give some explanations for such analysis outcomes and propose, on the basis
of these findings, a couple of low carbon emission options while creating more decent
jobs for the local population. These initial mitigation options include the restoration and
promotion of previous tours by means of cyclos and bikes, R & D of urban green tourism,
reduction of home to work travel by employees, source separation of solid waste by
hands in hotels and restaurants, promotion of the well-known vegetarian diet of Hue,
diversification and of locally-made products in the short term and development of OVOP
movement in the long term.