A market-based proposal for encouraging water use efficiency in a tourism-based economy

Cashman, Adrian; Moore, Winston

doi:10.1016/j.ijhm.2011.05.007

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“…[] show how important appropriate regulations and government policies make hotels more involved in water management. Cashman and Moore [] suggest complementing traditional measures (i.e., fiscal incentives on water saving technologies, awareness campaigns, certification schemes) with market‐based incentives, such as a system of tradable permits in the hotel sector.…”

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The effect of the water tariff structures on the water consumption in Mallorcan hotels

Deyà-Tortella

García

Nilsson

et al. 2016

Water Resources Research

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Tourism increases water demand, especially in coastal areas and on islands, and can also cause water shortages during the dry season and the degradation of the water supply. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of water price structures on hotel water consumption on the island of Mallorca (Spain). All tourist municipalities on the island use different pricing structures, such as flat or block rates, and different tariffs. This exogenous variation is used to evaluate the effect of prices on water consumption for a sample of 134 hotels. The discontinuity of the water tariff structure and the fixed rate, which depends on the number of hotel beds, generate endogeneity problems. We propose an econometric model, an instrumental variable quantile regression for within artificial blocks transformed data, to solve both problems. The coefficients corresponding to the price variables are not found to be significantly different from zero. The sign of the effect is negative, but the magnitude is negligible: a 1% increase in all prices would reduce consumption by an average of only 0.024%. This result is probably due to the small share of water costs with respect to the total hotel operational costs (around 4%). Our regression model concludes that the introduction of water‐saving initiatives constitutes an effective way to reduce consumption.

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The effect of the water tariff structures on the water consumption in Mallorcan hotels

Deyà-Tortella

García

Nilsson

et al. 2016

Water Resources Research

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“…Crase, Lin and O'Keefe (2010) argue that there is a lack of technical information between the various dimensions of water consumption and tourism limiting the knowledge base for policy makers. Consequently, the 10 pricing policy for water management needs to be empirically tested and modelled (Cashmann & Moore, 2012, Cazcarro, et.al. 2014) before it is implemented.…”

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Tourist attitudes towards water use in the developing world: A comparative analysis

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Essex

Čaušević

2014

Tourism Management Perspectives

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2 Highlights Water use amongst tourists visiting developing countries is review in The DominicanRepublic, Zanzibar and the Gambia 2. The green at home-not on holiday proposition is evaluated through water consumption 3. Issues of water inequality are examined to demonstrate the need to adjust tourist attitudes and behaviour where water use cannot easily be offset 3 Key words: water use; comparative analysis; developing countries; tourists' attitudes; TOURIST ATTITUDES TOWARDS WATER USE IN THE DEVELOPINGtourists' behaviors INTRODUCTIONThis paper examines the interconnections between water use by tourists and their awareness and behaviour towards problems facing destinations in the developing world in terms of water scarcity and access to drinking water. The paper is based on a comparative analysis of tourist attitudes towards water consumption and sustainability in both their home environment and whilst on holiday, focusing on the growing research agenda associated with water equity (Whitely, Ingram & Perry, 2008). As Hadjikakou, Chenoweth & Miller (2013) argue, there has been an oscillating interest in water issues in the wider sustainability debates due to the focus on carbon reduction and energy issues. Water equity refers to the UN's right to water and sanitation and, in the context of tourism, is considered as "Development that does not infringe upon or take precedence over the right to water of communities in destinations for essential personal, domestic and livelihood needs" (Tourism Concern, 2012: 5). 4The principle is unambiguous in ensuring access to water for communities alongside the operation of tourism, and reflects the growing application of wider social science areas of research structured around social equity in local communities and sustainability (Cole & Morgan 2011;Cole 2012). Water equity also connects with many wider issues of tourism and development, notably the debate over how western tourism interests exploit the developing world, as highlighted by Britton (1982Britton ( , 1991. This political economy approach acts as a means to understand, theorise and rationalise the tourism economies built around mass coastal tourism in fragile and vulnerable coastal tourism communities, particularly in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) (UNWTO 2012). Whilst it is not the purpose of this paper to adopt a political economy perspective, it is an important context to recognise as it also has a clear bearing on many of the debates associated with tourism and sustainability, especially in relation to the control of resources, access to these resources by local communities and their use by resource-intensive tourism interests (i.e. businesses and entrepreneurs).Although the issue of water consumption is not new within environmental management and tourism research, developing a comparative analysis to the issue across multiple destinations is a novel methodology to advance knowledge beyond single case studies. This paper focuses on research into tourists' attitudes to water equity in three developing c...

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“…Much of the focus in improving the sustainability of the accommodation and lodging sector, as with tourism overall, has been on encouraging the adoption of technologies and management systems that produce greater efficiencies in per room or customer inputs and outputs [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. For example, the World Economic Forum [14] (p. 7) suggests, 'For the accommodation cluster, reductions in carbon emissions will primarily be driven by the use of existing mature technologies in lighting, heating and cooling that can significantly improve hotel energy efficiency'.…”

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Accommodation Consumers and Providers’ Attitudes, Behaviours and Practices for Sustainability: A Systematic Review

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Accommodation and lodging are an integral component of the tourism and hospitality industry. Given the sectors' growing contribution to resource consumption and waste, there is a growing body of literature on the attitudes, behaviours and practices of consumers, managers, staff and owners of lodging with respect to sustainability. This paper presents the results of a systematic analysis of articles on attitudes, behaviours and practices of consumers and the provision of accommodation with respect to sustainability. The results indicate that there is a dearth of longitudinal studies on the sustainability of practices and behaviours. There are limitations in geographical coverage as well as methods, with research dominated by convenience sampling approaches. It is concluded that while there appear to be improvements in the potential sustainability of lodging with respect to technological approaches, the lack of systematic long-term studies on behavioural interventions represents a significant challenge to reducing the absolute emissions of the sector as well as reductions in energy and water use and waste production. Given the lack of longitudinal studies, it is not known whether observed behavioural changes are sustained over time.

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A market-based proposal for encouraging water use efficiency in a tourism-based economy

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

The effect of the water tariff structures on the water consumption in Mallorcan hotels

The effect of the water tariff structures on the water consumption in Mallorcan hotels

Tourist attitudes towards water use in the developing world: A comparative analysis

Accommodation Consumers and Providers’ Attitudes, Behaviours and Practices for Sustainability: A Systematic Review

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