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Innovation as a Key Driver of Sustainability in Tourism
Published in Mohammed El Amine Abdelli, Nadia Mansour, Atilla Akbaba, Enric Serradell-Lopez, Sustainability, Big Data, and Corporate Social Responsibility, 2022
Green innovation involves reducing environmental damage and developing new products, ideas, attitudes, and processes to achieve sustainable development goals. Along with green innovation and environmental consciousness concepts, ‘environmentally friendly hotel’ has become increasingly crucial for the tourism sector. Environmentally friendly hotels are enterprises that save water and energy, manage solid and liquid wastes, care about the preservation of biodiversity, and mind such concepts as recycling and reuse (Işık and Barlak 2018). For example, the green hotel practice that offers environmentally friendly lodging contributes to environmental sustainability by helping energy-savings, carbon reduction, and the elimination of solid waste (Horng et al. 2018).
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review
Published in International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2023
Sandra Ricart, Rubén Villar-Navascués, María Reyes, Antonio M. Rico-Amorós, María Hernández-Hernández, Elena Toth, Cristiana Bragalli, Mattia Neri, Bas Amelung
This cluster of studies explore the determinants of water consumption in Mediterranean mass tourism destinations (Torregrosa et al., 2010; Toth et al., 2018) and hotels (Deyà-Tortella et al., 2016, 2019; Deyà-Tortella & Tirado, 2011; Gabarda-Mallorquí et al., 2017), and the determinants and effectiveness of water-saving measures in hotels (Dinarès & Saurí, 2015; Razumova et al., 2016; Rico et al., 2020; Tirado et al., 2019; Torres-Bagur et al., 2019a). The studies typically consider a wide range of explanatory variables, including (1) physical hotel characteristics (size, category, age, amenities offered, water-saving devices); (2) seasonality and occupancy rates; (3) hotel management characteristics (business strategy, board type, opening period, environmental certifications and chain affiliation); and (4) other variables, such as climatic conditions and water tariffs.
Hotel pricing decision in a competitive market under government intervention: a game theory approach
Published in International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management, 2021
Elham Sadat Mousavi, Ashkan Hafezalkotob, Ahmad Makui, Mohammad Kazem Sayadi
Adopting government environmentally friendly policies to hotelier’s goals can increase stakeholder pressure and improve performance and reduce costs for hoteliers (Nimri, Patiar, & Kensbock, 2017). Generally, the nature of active government intervention in the tourism industry is an action or a series of measures that benefit the tourism sector. For any developed country, the extent of government intervention in the tourism sector will reflect the importance of tourism in the economy. This economic importance is usually measured in four ways: share of GDP and national income, foreign exchange earnings, employment and tourism-generated income and government revenue (Jenkins & Henry, 1982). For instance, if the government’s goal is to achieve economic growth through the development of the tourism industry, tax-exempt policies could be considered to boost the tourism industry. Moreover, the development of this industry and the subsequent expansion of hotels can be profitable in terms of tax and foreign exchange earnings. It is clear that the expansion of the tourism industry can have devastating environmental impacts. Excessive energy consumption and environmental damage are some negative points of the development of hotels. By providing incentive policies, the government can encourage hoteliers to make optimal use of energy consumption and protect the environment from the damage caused by the expansion of the tourism industry, in addition, it benefits from the economic benefits of expanding the tourism industry.