Sustainability in Hospitality Management

SUSTAINABILITY
HOSPITALITY
MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
Sustainability hospitality management is one of the important matter that currently facing
by the world. The management is faced by different types of sustainability issues which is
impacting on overall hospitality industry. This report shows the hospitality industry is operating
in every part of the world and there are external issues which influence their business
environment such as environmental, social etc. and it is very broad in the field of service that
includes the lodging, food, transportation, cruise line and so many other services. This report
contains the contribution of hospital industry in the environmental issues that is wastage of
natural resources, social issues discuss the employment rate of the country and economic issues
are concerned with the cultural differences and also analyse the issues on the profitability.
TASK
1. Evaluate the factors in which the hospitality industry contributes in the given issues
This industry contributes in the three different issues that is environmental, economic and
social issues. The hospitality industry is responsible for various types of issues occuring to the
natural atmosphere such as CO2 emission, CFC emissions, noise, purchasing policies,
transportation policies etc. Therefore, the sustainability of industry also influenced by the
environmental and economic issues. There are various kinds of sustainability issues that are
faced by hospitality industry.
Environmental issues
With the help of sustainability, the industry can operate for a longer period currently and
in the future as well. The sustainability in the industry can be managed by minimizing the issues
causing due to the operations of the company like access use of water, electricity etc. In fact in
hotel industry the usage of water and its waste is very high at the same the control on electricity
was even hurting the environment badly. The organization can implement some methods or
approaches to reduce the impact of environmental issues like using solar energy for electricity
and can make the business operations eco-friendly. (Villarino and Font, 2015).
Issues related to the Hospitality
Usage of water - it is the biggest issues many hotels and resorts are doing lot of waste of water
like the long shower taken by the guest, huge pool etc. even they use the water for dishes and
they did not have the machines to save the water. Hospitality industry organizations do not focus
on saving water in fact water consumption and wastage in such organization is quite high.
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Usage of energy – The energy consumption in the hospitality sector is very large as they operate
all around the world and provide services to a lot of tourists. (Aragon-Correa, Martin-Tapia and
de la Torre-Ruiz, 2015 ). Instead of focusing on conserving energy and using appliances that can
reduce energy consumption most of the hotels focus on high consumption of electricity in order
to provide comfort to guest which further increases carbon footprint of organizations.
Pollution – Most of the hospitality company like Travelodge operates in tourism and hospitality
sector which utilizes fuel to carry their customers to different parts of the world and leads to the
pollution in the environment.
All these above resources play significant role in tourism industry as country is having
more tourist they will utilize more resources of that particular country and it leads to the issue for
the country as the resources are limited and the consumption is increased due to the increase in
tourism.
Economic issues
It is similar to the environment sustainability that involves in creating the value for an
environment it includes from the creation of value out of the projects and the organization's
decision are undertaking. Economic sustainability means the decisions made in the most
equitable and fiscal way that sounds positive while taking the consideration on other aspects of
sustainability. With the help of digital technology, hospitality sectors increases their productivity
and profitability and expanding their business in all around the world. Economic sustainability
implies the system that satisfy the present need without doing any compromise in the future
needs. But still the hospitality industry is facing the environmental issues that are
Stay ahead in the rise of energy cost, this industry got the breather from the sky rocketing energy
but these prices are still high.
As the advancement in technology is increasing day by day and also helping the hospitality
sector in terms of growing their business, revenue and productivity but it also impact on
employment rate of the region where they are operating, as most of the work is carrying out by
the machines and employees are being replaces which overall influencing the economy of this
sector.
As the employment rate is increasing by the time as the tourism is increasing than the flow of
income become more and the infrastructure is also developed due to the increase in tourism that
leads to generate the more employment in the country.
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