Sustainability in Green Hotel Industry

Sustainability in Green hotel industry

In the hotel industry usually prevailing need short-term economic benefits make it difficult to integrate the principles of sustainability, achieved profits but in the long term. Sanga-Saby Kurs & Konferens Centre was located in Faringso island in Lake Mälaren in central Sweden, an entirely different approach. In the early 1990s made the decision to make the first trade policy environment. The basis of environmental conscious objective activity to protect the environment by using renewable resources within the eco-cycle which is sealed to the level possible, avoiding environmentally destructive substances.  Environmental policy and program based on the concept of "natural step".

The primary objectives of the program were completed in September 1996 were operating the facility using only renewable energy. Green electricity is purchased only while marine heat pump systems with propane and refrigerators and ensure space conditioning the facility. Can provide the entire facility Cold Lake Mälaren during the hot summer months, uses oil methyl ester during turnip winter time for additional heating. Water for the swimming pool and the sauna is heated via heat pumps and solar panels.

Cold rooms, refrigerators in the kitchen also make use of the lake water as a cooling medium. Until the vehicle fleet and all the gardening equipment run on biofuels, apart from one electricity by lawnmowers, solar one, and the third the grass. Moreover, there are some energy efficiency and provide solutions.

This facility does not depend on water from Lake Mälaren to meet their needs was equipped with water purification, and wastewater treatment plants own like it. Own sparkling water is producing to reduce unnecessary transport in the workplace. Waste is sorted to over 20 fractions, and compost facility has been established. The quantity of chemicals used in the plant has been significantly reduced and all products eco-certified. All raw materials and building materials and consumer goods carefully selected, preferably with eco-labels, to provide better service and achieve optimal environmental adaptation.

The overall environmental policy is visible especially in the new addition to the complex room Malarblick building. It was built in a manner consistent with the surrounding nature and blow up rocks and was discounted and were cutting trees during construction. The building of wood certified and equipped with eco-labelled internal materials, and furniture. It uses rocks and heat pumps with floor heating for space conditioning and solar panels to produce hot water. In General, all designed to lead to continuous improvement, creating the basis for preventive environmental programs. This approach might increase the occupancy rate and higher profits.

He was three times the annual turnover in the last decade and profits at the level of 10-12%. This example clearly shows that environmental management makes good business sense even in a highly competitive market of the hotel.

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The World Tourism Organization (WTO) describing tourism as one of the most important economic, social, cultural and political phenomena of the 20th century, when a hotel landmark buildings in many destinations. The tourism industry is in a relationship with the environment, but for many years and claimed that "smokeless industry". In fact, accommodation facilities interact with their surroundings through every stage of their life cycle, often negatively. Resorts are frequently developed in fragile ecosystems and pristine with little or no consideration for local cultural or natural environment. Require many services provided by these institutions con-by large quantities of energy, water, and non-durable products. Efficient use of resources of many end users in such facilities is low, and the resulting environmental impacts are of great size.

There has been increasing international awareness of this trade has a significant adverse impact on the environment in recent years. While the average visitor might not having clear requirements vocalizing more sustainable practices in the tourism sector, is to translate the growing environmental awareness among travelers gradually increasing demand. In response, companies for considering environmental issues in their business practices.

P.S. Rewrite from a paper by Paulina Bohdanowicz, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, As written as in “Sustainable Building Design Book,” 2005.