Sustainable Solutions in the Hospitality Industry and Competitiveness Context of “Green Hotels”

Abstract

This interdisciplinary paper researches the importance of sustainable hotel engineering and organisation of facilities for the purposes of realisation of a sustainable and responsible hospitality facility business. Considered through the interdisciplinary aspect, at the same time, it represents a research goal with the focus on the segment of youth tourists, who, as existing consumers of low-budget expenditure, are turning into DINKY, as well as the segment of conscious adult consumers in the future. The paper, through a questionnaire, researches the perception of the importance of resource management, with the implementation of innovative technologies by youth tourists’ related attitudes and experiences. The methodology is based predominantly on qualitative research methods and includes analysis and conceptual methodology and survey research methods of youth tourists’ attitudes. The quantitative research was processed by using the statistical methodology combined with techniques of creative thinking formation. The results point to the predominance of importance in which over 90% of respondents confirm the importance of sustainable initiatives and resource management with the following rank: food, water, energy, and waste management. Further analysis implies an opposite attitude where only 52.9% of participants would be willing to pay higher prices for sustainable solutions in hotels. The results and recommendations contribute to knowledge and ideas by recognizing competitiveness of hotels, which design and engineer the business system and operations with support of sustainable technologies in an interdisciplinary way. The paper also contributes to the comprehension of combined and successfully communicated economic and marketing values of sustainable innovations supported by digital technologies.

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

“…Additionally, the hotel guests' knowledge and skills must also be consistent with the hotel's low-carbon concept [38,50]. In this way, guests can understand and cooperate when the hotel advocates for low-carbon and implements low-carbon practices [51,52]. However, the extant R-E Fit research mainly discusses the relationship between tourists and tourism destinations, and the studies on R-E Fit and GPEB focus on place attachment; few studies examine R-E Fit in hotels' low-carbon practices.…”

Evaluation of Landscape Natural Values in Tourism, with Special Regard to Vegetation – Case Study: Otwock Commune, Central Poland

“…Otwock commune has got the big potential for developing sustainable and smart tourism [70] because of the attractiveness and usefulness of vegetation values, diversity of terrain relief and surface water occurring. Accommodation and sanitary facilities (next to natural and cultural values) determine development of tourism function and types of tourism [71]. Otwock commune have got significant accommodation for shortstay and long-stay for tourists [60,69].…”

A Fuzzy MCDM Approach for Structured Comparison of the Health Literacy Level of Hospitals

“…This framework could be used in general or as a specific framework. The following are required: (1) To achieve a good picture of the importance of health literacy criteria from the sustainable perspective of the country, the healthcare sustainable conditions in its different areas and the role of the selected healthcare facility in achieving it should be considered; (2) The importance of the criteria is deferent by cities and healthcare facility types (hospital, unit, or center and public or private), and this deference should also be considered; (3) The investigated and compared healthcare organizations should be located at the same location, and have the same facility type; (4) The selected indicators should be applicable for use in the selected sector [10]; (5) The information gathering should be repeatable and stable, and the consistency test for the data gathered should use fuzzy analytic hierarchy process data, and an agreement test for the decision makers' opinions gathered using fuzzy Delphi should be performed; and (6) The framework should allow the healthcare sector or companies to visualize and explain the results of the evaluation, weighting, and comparison and, finally, allow a derivation of the areas where the government or companies could improve or where the business sector could help, serve, or plan its corporate social responsibility practices.…”

“…Corporate social responsibility is regarded as one way to achieve such targets [4]. To improve the sustainability status of organizations and to integrate the sustainability issues into the business of it, companies should plan their sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility practices based on the sustainability need of communities [5,6].…”

“…Conducting a structured comparison of the level of implementation, allows stakeholders to allocate, distribute and manage the related support resources in a way that contributes achieving the fair and sustainable distribution of resources, and supports meeting the ethical, economic, environmental and legal social responsibilities [1,3,4,5,6,10]. For example, the government wants to determine and rank the healthcare institutions that are most in need to support, determine how should government resources be fairly distributed among them according to their real application gaps in the application of health literacy practices, classify the application factors into different groups in terms of their sustainable importance, taking into account local economic conditions, and distribute resources between hospitals at different improvement stages so that the most important aspects are supported first; such questions become more important when the countries concerned are poor, and cannot provide sufficient support to fully address the health literacy situation simultaneously.…”