Universal Studios Hollywood Sustainability Study

Over the years, tourism has grown to be one of the most rampant industries in our economy. Visiting new places, trying new food, observing new cultures, and visiting sites of attraction all are great ways for recreation, and creates booming business for many tourism industries. However, tourists forget the consequences of their recreation. In the long run, tourism can lead to the loss of biodiversity that destabilizes ecosystems, and threatens our food supplies. Tourism also leads to an increase in ozone – depleting pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons. Refrigerants, aerosol sprays, and pollutants from aircrafts all contribute to the destruction of our ozone layer in the long run. Furthermore, tourism not only impacts weather; we can also

Have one of you all ever been to Universal Studios Orlando? Ok,well my family took a trip to Universal last spring. It was my mom,dad,brother,and me.We laughed,screamed,and yelled.Ok then let's get on with it.

The Walt Disney Company has three major long-term goals for environmental stewardship. Disney emphasizes the term of attaining a “zero” state. These three goals are zero net greenhouse gas emissions, zero waste, and conserve water resources.

As a part of their ongoing effort to reduce their carbon footprint by fifty percent in advance of the year 2020, Disney added a new forty-eight thousand panel solar farm to its Florida theme park and resort Walt Disney World and Epcot Center. The facility is another in an ongoing string of sustainability initiatives enacted

Two of the biggest theme parks in Orlando, Florida are Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. Both of the theme parks are huge competitors when it comes to getting customers and money. In this essay I will show you which of the two theme parks is better than the other, by using multiple different categories that theme parks use when making their parks.

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.

As a child I enjoyed going to amusement parks. I enjoyed spending the weekends and afternoons with my family going to an amusement park. Amusement parks are something magical full of fascination and excitement for kids and grown ups. But there are some things that ruin that moment of enjoying a day in the afternoon in our favorite amusement park. Disneyland is greater than Universal Studios Hollywood because of their rides, waiting times, the prices.

Dreamworld’s owners, Ardent Leisure has developed a park that has accounted for all difficulties of sustainability despite the location and size of the amusement park. Dreamworld is a theme park situated in Coomera, near the east coast of Queensland. Due to its isolation, it is imperative to have effective sustainability methods to reserve the resources expended by the park’s energy demanding attractions. Sustainability will be the issue brought to light in this report, and a new ride will be implemented with all of the characteristics of being economically, environmentally and socially responsible. The management of the ride will be investigated in the report, including the legislations that govern sustainability.

UVM, specifically Vermont, is the perfect place for sustainability and going “green.” UVM has taken many steps in becoming a top school for not only environmental education but a top school for sustainability as well. UVM is continuing to strive for climate neutrality and these efforts will continue well into the future. UVM’s efforts are inspirational to the community, students and the future of sustainability.

Sustainability is a huge problem in the cruising industry. Cruise ships emit three times as much carbon dioxide as airplanes. Cruise ships

They also have a Disney World Conservation Fund which has supported 112 countries totaling over $20 million in projects. They have also put conserving the environment in different movies they came out with. Examples of these movies are Disney Earth, Oceans, Wings of Life, etc. The profits of these movies have contributed to Disney planting trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, protecting 40,000 of the coral reefs in the Bahamas, and the conservation of 50,000 acres of savanna wildlife in Africa. The Walt Disney Company also made an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Disney has reduces its GHG levels 31% since 2012, and hope to reduce GHG 50% by 2020. Disney also uses fuel cells as one of its improvements to be more energy efficient. These companies do great things for the environment. Even though they do some things similarly and some things differently, protecting the environment is something all companies need to do. Another thing these companies are known for is the helping hand they give kids. They help kids become more knowledgeable about the environment, but they also realize children are the future, and want to help them in any way

The Walt Disney Company, according to an EPA report based on 2005 records, “has reduced an equivalent of more than 71,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide” (Disney, 2008). Continual planning and organization is underway to enhance green building designs for all Disney hotels by next Earth Day. Disney’s officials say they are very committed and with great leadership and control it is definitely possible (Disney, 2008).

Many hospitality industries are doing their best to be sustainable and green. Even though there are many issues hospitality industries are facing. Sustainability includes not only environmental issues but also preservation of local cultures. The industries are still struggling to find measurements and benchmarks for “green” operations generally and energy conservation specifically. Food service operations also face sustainability issues, complicated by guest interest in healthy food and local sourcing. Hotel industry processes and their related resource consumption in hotel operations have some form of environmental impact (Singh, Houdre,

Retention of Visitor spending: The key to achieving economic sustainability for tourism in (i.e. California and Giants Causeway) is maximising the economic retention of tourist spending in your local economy. The sustainable tourism businesses need to develop strategies that are capable of meeting the long-term economic needs and aspirations of the local community. If the communities are engaged by tourism organisations as stakeholders in tourism, and economic partners in the tourism industry, this will actively support local tourism businesses. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry and has far-reaching economic and environmental impact across the destinations; hence, if tourism is an important source of local employment and a significant

Universal Studios Singapore (USS) (Appendix 1) is a globally-recognized brand, a local theme park located within Resorts World Sentosa which had a grand opening on 28 May 2011. It is the first Universal Studios theme park to open in Southeast Asia. The park is 20 hectare and the official park map was revealed to the public on 20 October 2009. The park features 24-themed rides, of which 21 are normal rides, 6 roller coasters and 2 water rides.(Wikipedia,2015)The 24 rides and shows segregated by 7 themed zones gives visitors a taste of different movie experiences all within one park, in an organized fashion. Universal Studios Singapore is owned by Genting Group on 8 December 2006 as they won the bid to build Singapore’s second integrated resort.