Sustainable Hospitality Management 2022

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Sustainable Hospitality Management
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Abstract
In the current business environment, competition is inevitable thus organizations strive to
understand sustainability issues to enhance current and future successful operation of the
business. The paper explores environmental, economic and social sustainability factors
influencing hospitality sustainability. Hospitality is one of the fastest growing industries;
however accounts less than 5% of the total nations building stock. Energy consumption in hotels
has increased from 25% to 30% over the last decade due to the continuous growth of occupancy,
and development. The rising environmental sustainability among companies, the hospitality
industry is no exception in trying to adopt different strategies that enhance environmental
sustainability. Economic sustainability denotes to the customs that focus at supporting long-term
monetary development without destructively impacting the social, cultural and environment
elements of the society. A large number of restaurants and hotels employ a large number of
workers, for example, U.S hospitality industry alone employs above 14 million workers,
however, the pool of suitable workers tend to reduce with time thus affecting revenue collection,
brand image, reputation as well as the general growth of the entire organizations. A large number
of restaurants and hotels employ a large number of workers, for example, U.S hospitality
industry alone employs above 14 million workers, however, the pool of suitable workers tend to
reduce with time thus affecting revenue collection, brand image, reputation as well as the general
growth of the entire organizations.

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Introduction
Over the few years, sustainability has become a significant issue among organizations
due to the rising population, competition and other factors that create a challenging business
environment. Higgins, Moskwa and Wijesinghe (2017) states that clear understanding of the
sustainability issues in the hospitality industry is significance for current and future successful
operation of the business. The purpose of the present paper thus is to explore 3 varied
sustainability issues from environmental, social and economic elements, while analytically
assessing the degree to which the hotel and tourism business impacts to all of the sustainability
elements. The paper similarly analyzes the impacts of the issues on the hospitality industry
productivity as well as the benefits of business sustainability administrative in the hospitality
trade.
Figure 1: Shows Sustainability Elements, obtained from (Higgins, Moskwa and Wijesinghe
2017).

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Critical evaluation of the extent to which the hospitality contributes to the environmental, economic
and social issues
Environmental issues
Over the past few years hospitality has experienced the fastest growth in the international
market thus placing a large amount of pressure on the environment. Although the hospitality
business accounts less than 5% of the total nations building stock, hotel business encompasses
above 300,000 amenities thus making one of the most significant components of the national and
international hospitality industry globally, the hospitality industry emits about 5% of the CO2
and other related GHC emissions and consumes about 40% of the global energy (Rai (2016).
Energy forms the second largest spending type for hospitality industry after employment with
6% of the total operating cost resulting in about 60% of CO2 emissions (Chang, Huh and Lee
2015). Hospitality industry such as hotel energy consumptions is influenced by factors such as
technical, local, architectural and management among many others.
According to Vourdoubas (2016) ,energy consumption in hotels have increased from
25% to 30% over the last decade due to the continuous growth of occupancy, and development
of new ways of consumption that are more energy intensive such as TV and music appliances.
The major energy consumption in the hotels is as a result of the temperature regulation inside the
rooms with a representation of about 69% for heating water and 9% for air conditioning), and the
figure can be more in other extreme climate conditions. Other lesser energy users in the hotel
include a kitchen with a representation of 11% and other activities such as lighting, laundry with