Sustainability and Environmental Standards: Seeking Competitive Distinction at Damai Lovina Villas

In sustainability: The New Holy Grail, Miller argues that people who question the United States ability to become more sustainable devalue American innovation. The arguments made throughout his article however seem one sided and aggressive. Millers out view on things are from a religious outlook making his points seem unreliable.

"Sustainable Architecture" - this phrase in recent years is mentioned a lot. The concept of "sustainable architecture" is associated, even identified with the concept of green architecture, ecological architecture, environmentally friendly, energy efficient ... to reach a stable value for the environment human life, reduce negative impacts on the environment in the present and future. However, although this interpretation is correct, but only one aspect, because that's what people are missing and need to achieve. Try to reach and understanding of sustainable architecture in general and more simple ...

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.

As we discussed in class, every business is faced with these issues and they are important to managers making strategic decisions. One of the first things learned about business is that if there is no demand for a good or service, the firm that provides it will not continue to exist. Over time the hotel industry has continued to change with market conditions and make itself attractive to business

This report aims to discuss and investigates the sustainable practices and development for Cordis Hong Kong (formally as The Langham Place Hotel Hong Kong) and all attractions and places around the Langham. There will be totally five parts excluding references to evaluate whether The Langham Hong Kong’s practices coordinate or depart from the principle of sustainability by addressing from the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), three aspects to mention the issues and challenges facing the business and its operation. In the following part, it will be the brief introduction about The Cordis. Followed by the issues, the assessment of operation will evaluate the hotel and dealing with or meets the sustainability criteria or not, and lastly of the report will suggest various future improvements for the hotel.

Egypt has long been seen as a place rich in tradition and culture. With specific respect to Siwa, a region in the country, this was very much true when it was discovered by an investor in 1995, who described it as untouched by time. Despite its recent rocky revolution, Egypt has strived to place itself in a position to be a model not just for Africa, but for the whole of the Arab World, and has done so by promoting freedoms and encouraging foreign investment through various liberal policies. This has helped alleviate the country's employment problem, but much remains to be done, and not all reforms have been wholly positive. The paragraphs below will focus further on the Siwa region, and the specific project which it entails, and will discuss the objectives of the project introduced here, as well as pertinent issues and how they have and will affect the country.

When I was five years old I began school. In Kindergarden we learned basic things like letters, numbers, and how not to be fully engulfed in flames. For some reason, 2004 was the height of anti-fire education in Missouri and before I knew how to tie my shoes I knew that if I ever was ablaze, to cover my face, fall to my knees, and roll back and fourth. This is what my institution placed serious value upon and because I was a student of that institution I also placed serious value upon it. The same idea must be applied to a university's teaching of environmental sustainability. This is discussed in David Orr's "What is Education For?" Through choosing a curriculum a university chooses what it places value onto, by making the environment a priority it showcases to the future generations that environmental wellness is an important responsibility for them to take ownership.

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

Sustainability is a topic that has become very important in recent years. Sustainability is defined as, “the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely.” ("Finding and Resolving the Root Causes of the Sustainability Problem", 2014)

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,

Whitepod hotel and resorts have a very minimal impact to the environment which has become the positive effect of their operation, providing the tranquility that harmonizes the beauty of nature is a very powerful insight (Struthers, 2006). They are currently number one in the tripadvisor.com community reviews gathering 94% excellent votes in terms of quality of location, quality of service, cleanliness and value to their guest saying that this is one of the most unique experiences they ever hand and they gladly return to whitepod hotel and resort (Tripadvisor.com, 2014). In the experience of whitepod they are able to meet their objectives which are the natural effect of their choice to highly innovate green revolution; basically this has produced a very high reputation in their customer, government and suppliers that they are able to penetrate the following

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).

Again, much like other small hydro projects, there is a rack at the inlet of the penstock to prevent debris from entering. However, these projects are somewhat unique in their approach to disposing of this waste. All biowaste is used to make compost, while all plastic bottles and de- bris are recycled [6]. Additionally, the

Analyse: The Nan Tien Temple offers a number of services to the tourist marketing segment. They offer planned retreats for people with an interest in Chinese culture. They have classes at the temple which have a Chinese focus, including: t’ai chi, meditation and calligraphy. Tourists are also offered accommodation options on the same grounds if they’re looking to stay in the area, as well as conference facilities and weddings. The Macro-Environment plays a role on the tourism marketing operations of the Nan Tien Temple, and its opportunities and threats to its sustainability. Currently the Nan Tien Temple’s website is very outdated, with a limited online booking system, hindering how they can plan/use online technologies to market their attraction. By having tours conducted by employees they limit the amount of people who go through the area every day, and allow for sustainability, through less damage by having limit number of group tours. Having group tours benefits the site by allowing money to go back into maintaining the grounds, and improving the site.

This report is written by Group F students from Tourism and Event Management Year 3. The main purpose of this report is to conduct a market analysis of Angsana Ihuru, Maldives which is managed by Banyan Tree group. This report consists the analysis of market environment, marketing segmentation, 4Ps of Angsana Ihuru and what Angsana do for sustainability initiatives.