Strategies to improve energy and carbon efficiency of luxury hotels in Iran

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Exploring Recreationist-Environment Fit Hospitality Experiences of Green Hotels in China

“…Being a low-carbon producer is a new approach to sustainable economic development [60], and low-carbon has become a new focus in green hospitality management research [61,62]. Hotel carbon emissions, representing large contributions to climate change, have attracted significant attention from society.…”

The Role of Performance and Environmental Sustainability Indicators in Hotel Competitiveness

“…Big hotels produce substantial carbon footprints [23] and, thus, one of the goals of sustainable hotels is to lower the carbon footprint successfully [24]. There have been quite a few recent contributions on energy and water use in hotels [20,23,25] based on case studies from Austria, Iran and Thailand, but no study has so far covered the sustainability of hotels in Serbia from the aspect of the sustainable hotel business. Therefore, environmental aspects of the hotel business need to be seen as a specific process that requires multidisciplinary analysis.…”

“…Commitment to these issues also requires an analysis of how to implement environmentally sustainable business successfully in hotels. Studies that analysed the relationship between the environment and hotel performance used different variables, from practice, initiative, technology and environmental management systems to analysis of the specific positive and negative impacts of hotel activities on the environment, as well as emissions [2,9,20,23,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. According to these studies, performance management requires the application of certain elements, instruments, indicators, techniques and methods, on the basis of which managers have the ability to identify, achieve and increase the efficiency of the use of resources and capabilities of the company.…”

Life Cycle-Based Sustainability and Circularity Indicators for the Tourism Industry: A Literature Review

“…In many cases, the indicators were proposed in general or for a great number of products/sectors (including tourism) or tourism destinations; however, only in a limited number of publications was a clear connection made to accommodations. It is to be highlighted that such a connection was clearly made only for recycling rate [64] and carbon footprint or climate change [51,53,78], although the use of it as a proxy for all indicators was criticised for systems where the impacts are not only connected to a few activities, such as consumption of energy and/or a small number of resources [53]. In the case of hospitality, such a limit could depend on the type of accommodation-e.g., the number of activities and/or material/energy flows cannot be the same for a small B&B and for a five-star hotel.…”