Climate change impact assessment in hotels: methodology and adaptation strategies for high quality hotels

Abstract

Hotels are buildings with major specific energy and water demands per occupant, due to high levels of services and comfort provided and expectation from tourists, meaning that they could be one of the building types more vulnerable to changes in climate. Usually high occupancy rates of hotels happen in summer, for beach and city hotels, increasing the vulnerability to climate change. Projected changes in mean and extreme temperature and precipitation over the Mediterranean region, in particular over mainland Portugal, will be likely to intensify the well-known asymmetries in the Portuguese climate, with more intense heat waves and with longer duration. This paper presents the methodology followed in project AdaPT AC:T to assess the vulnerability of hotels to climate change and the impact of some adaptation strategies.

Relationships between Hotel and Restaurant Electricity Consumption and Tourism in 11 European Union Countries

“…Some authors have pointed out the increasing needs of cooling due to climate change [84]. For example, for hotels in Greece [85], an increase of 248% in cooling demand is expected, while the case study of a hotel in Lisbon shows a potential increase of the primary energy for cooling load of 25% [86], in the most severe scenarios of climate change. Therefore, it is desirable to elaborate CDD series for European countries, which to date are not available, to analyze the effect of higher temperatures on Hotel and Restaurant electricity consumption.…”

Tourism and temperature effects on the electricity consumption of the hospitality sector

“…These results are in line with previous studies referring to Greece and Portugal. In the first case, Asimakopoulos et al, (2012), estimate that an increase of 248% in cooling demand is expected due to CC, while in the second case, Pinto et al, (2016), estimate a potential primary energy for cooling increase of 25%.…”