Sustainability Reporting For Hotel Companies : A Tool For Overcoming The Crisis

The hotel has acquired various initiatives for sustainability. Some of these are waste reduction, reusing and recycling, constant monitoring of gas, oil and electricity usage etc.

Making tourism more sustainable is not just about controlling and managing the negative impacts of the industry. Tourism is in a very special position to benefit local communities, economically and socially, and to raise awareness and support for conservation of the environment.

Tourism plays a significant role in sustainable development and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) wish to encourage all countries to make sure that their policies and actions for its development and management fully embrace the principles of sustainability. Likewise, policies to promote sustainable development should take full account of the opportunities offered by tourism. Various international conventions and declarations have put forward principles and guidelines for sustainable tourism and the importance of tourism and its sustainability was underlined at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Many countries declare that they are pursuing, or wish to pursue, policies for ‘sustainable tourism’. Despite this interest, there remains a degree of uncertainty over the scope and priorities for making tourism more sustainable and only partial appreciation of how to put this into practice (Making Tourism More Sustainable, 2005).

Environmentalism has become a great concern in all sectors of business, evidenced by the recent jump in energy prices, and empirical data provided by several different environmental and scientific agencies. The Hotel industry is no different, in fact, it would benefit greatly from the recent push for all businesses and business sectors to "Go Green." Yet, the industry has long resisted the changes, and is only recently catching up to other industries that have converted their operations to have greener strategies.

The vision/mission behind the Good Hotel concept is to maintain its identity as a “hotel with a conscience” – encompassing a positive attitude, environmental sensitive, and philanthropy. The intent of the vision is to inspire the “good in us all”. (Pearce, 2012, p. 10-1, 10-2)

My hotel will launch a long term vision called ‘Love the Earth’ which is related to green management topic. It is committed to lead our hotel into a new stage towards sustainability development so as to provide a better world for our generation in the future. With this mutual commitment as for the companies and individuals, we would

The core areas of the three pillars are the social science, economic and Environmental protection of sustainable development. These pillars form the backbone of the core areas that the world now faces. In short, social science is caring about the awareness of the health of people from pollution and other harmful activities of the all-round business industry. For example, if we relate this to the hospitality industry. How can we build a sustainable hotel, with sustainable material. Next to this, we have the economic development, this is about getting what we consume and giving people what they want without compromising the quality of life. At last, but also the most important core in the pillars is the environment protection. By recycling and reducing our use of electric power and water saving we protect the environment. The technological advantages can help the hospitality in this, but can also be a damage for in the

Marriott International envisions itself to be the world’s lodging leader. Its mission is to provide the best possible lodging services experience to customers who vary in backgrounds, language, tradition, religion and cultures all around the world. Marriot is committed to environmental preservation through using environment-friendly technology and engages in social responsibility and community engagement.  We value our shareholder’s so we will only take steps that will ensure our growth. Most importantly, through our “spirit to serve”, we emphasize the importance of Marriott’s people and recognize the value they bring to the organization’s growth and success. It aims to increase revenues by 9% every year, to increase

In the present, sustainability is increasingly seen as an important factor in our society, especially in organizations such as accommodation provider or tour company. According to Ullman (2009) Sustainability practice is very important, because all the actions that we make today will affect everything in the future, therefore we need to make flexible decisions at present in order to avoid some negative consequences. By adopting sustainability practices, companies are able to gain competitive edge, increase their market share, and boost shareholder value (Frandsen, Morsing, Vallentin, 2013). Sustainability issues does not always refer to environmental sustainability but also relate to economic and social sustainability. This report will discuss and identify the most important sustainability issues that Four Season Hotel Sydney is facing, then apply an appropriate tourism sustainability criteria and assess how this hotel is addressing sustainability, finally talk about how to improve sustainability practices and recommendations.

Many hotels utilize sustainability as a strategy setting for operations, and as a critical success factor (Boerner, 2010). A company become more sustainable by evaluating the positive and negative environmental, economic, and socio cultural impacts on hospitality industry and helps the operation to be in profit and minimize waste or harmful aspects. Environmental certification program for hotels Provides technical guidance. Participating facilities area warded between 1and5 Green Keys depending on loyalty to criteria (LRA Worldwide,

Abstract In the 21st century, with the increasing levels of globalization in hospitality industry, hotel companies will need to learn different management approaches to survive and develop in environmental circumstances with high levels of uncertainty as well as understand the implication of future impacts, both positive and negative, of the changing environment in which they operate. As international trade and business expand, there is no question that international linkage will become more important for the hotel industry. This essay focuses on globalization in the hotel industry and explains how the increasing levels of

At last, the ecological element is also important when investigating the business environment and the CSR has gradually ended up coordinated in numerous associations' business goals. For a hotel industry to be socially, dependable it must finish numerous approaches, for example, submitting to the energy consumption laws, lessening carbon footprint, and connecting with the local community. Then again, the natural disaster has turned out to be incessant. Subsequently, numerous destination spots are intensely influenced and sustainable tourism must be practiced to save natural resources (Levonsky & Conley, 2004).

In Twenty-First Century, pollution is a big issue in over the world so people are carefully pay more their attention on protecting the environment than ever. Therefore, ecotourism has been introduced to customer by many tourism businesses include hotel, resort, airline or safari. This essay will compare and contrast some tourism business’s sustainable programs such as Eco Beach Resort, Habitat HQ Hostel and Qantas Airline. Then it will discuss the impacts of these sustainable options may have on the consumer’s decision process.

What is sustainable tourism? According to the World Tourism Organization (2005), sustainable tourism means, “It takes full account of its current and future economic, social, and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.” There are several destinations that are focusing on sustainable tourism. In the United States, Disney is starting to realize they can make a difference by switching to a more sustainable environment. On the other hand, internationally in Costa Rica, at Rainforest Adventures, they have developed sustainable practices for their guests to get involved with.

Tourists are environmental consumers and thus, the tourism industry axiomatically requires natural environment and human quality. In the broadest sense, environmental issues and social responsibility practices are academic and hence, are unrelated to business interests. As a result, the study aims to measure the awareness level of tour operations and ascertains the current practices that have enabled practical, positive, and professional pressure for the development of sustainability in the tourism industry. Tour operators are business entities combining two or more services of travel (sightseeing, transport, catering, accommodation, and entertainment among others) thereafter sell them through agencies of travel or to consumers directly as a package tour. In essence, a tour operator becomes an intermediary who brings both buyers and sellers together with the aim of expanding the market size through the creation of markets where they did not exist, and or ensure the existing markets work efficiently (Cooper et al. 1998, p.189). This study aims at recognizing the plan of their programs, which has enabled the tour operators to remain profitable despite the existing competition in the sector. Undifferentiated products and small margins particularly the mass marketers characterize the British tour operators. Furthermore, operators like Thomson, Airtours, and First Choice dominate the market although the trend is moving towards oligopoly.