Carbon Footprint of the Global Hotel Companies: Comparison of Methodologies and Results

Grosbois, Danuta de; Fennell, David A.

doi:10.1080/02508281.2011.11081669

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“…One of the claimed aims and potential benefits of ecocertification programmes in any industry sector is to bring the laggards closer to the leaders, and hence improve aggregate performance across the entire sector (Buckley 2002b ). The programmes described by Herremans et al (2011) and Grosbois and Fennell (2011), however, do not seem to have been very effective in this regard.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Companies convert their claims to "trees planted" or "cars taken off the road", using undefined conversion factors. According to Grosbois and Fennell (2011 ), for example, lTC Welcomegroup "declared itself to be a 'carbon positive' corporation which created 'certifiable carbon credits' but without reporting its carbon footprint (or carbon credit) in any form". Bricker and Schultz (2011) tested 13 of 23 State scale tourism certification programmes in the USA against the 37 Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria.…”

Section: Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given that these commitments were themselves tourism industry initiatives, such failure is particularly acute. Grosbois and Fennell (2011) compared how 150 large hotel groups claim to assess and report carbon footprints, according to corporate websites. Carbon footprint reporting is uncommon, ambiguous, and unverified.…”

Section: Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2012

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“…A comparable scheme in Australia uses green stars (Figure 7). Accommodation providers have adopted a variety of carbon labeling systems (de Grosbois and Fennell 2011;Gössling 2010). Hotel association Viabono (2013) provides colour codes ( Figure 8), and numerical data on CO2 emissions per guest night.…”

Section: Results: Carbon Label Content and Formatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon labels in tourism: persuasive communication?

Gößling

Buckley

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Ecolabels are widespread tools for policy and marketing in many industry sectors. Carbon labels focussing on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, are one specialised category of ecolabel. Carbon labels are currently in common use by tourism corporations, particularly those involved in air travel. All ecolabels, including carbon labels in tourism, rely on persuasive communication: i.e., providing technical information to individuals in ways that induce them to change relevant behaviours. This requires that individuals understand that information, appreciate its significance, trust its reliability, and know what to do about it. Here, these four criteria are applied firstly, to a set of leading tourism carbon label schemes, a producer perspective; and secondly, to a set of environmentally well-informed tourists using those schemes, a consumer perspective. Results indicate that tourism carbon label schemes suffer significant shortcomings both from the theoretical perspective of simple communications analysis and from the practical perspective of tourist understanding and action. Evidence to date is that tourists do indeed pay little attention to carbon labels. This analysis shows that even if tourists care about their climate change impacts, carbon labels are currently ineffective because of deficiencies in communications. Since such deficiencies can be overcome, there are opportunities for carbon labels to become more effective.

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“…As found in earlier research (Becken, 2012;Biggs et al, 2012;Coles & Zschiegner, 2011;De Grosbois & Fennell, 2011;Nelson, 2010aNelson, , 2010bRevell et al, 2010;Su et al, 2013;Vernon et al, 2003;Zeppel, 2012a), the most popular were energy efficiency measures, such as installing energy-saving lighting and purchasing energy-efficient appliances, and reducing energy use measures, such as recycling and minimizing waste, and adopting and encouraging energy-conserving behavior. These were the easier measures to adopt and those that would provide immediate cost savings to operators for little or no outlay, perhaps conforming to Weaver's (2011) When responses for carbon reduction actions were ranked by tourism operators from 1 (highest) to 4 (lowest), the first ranked response was: Other reasons, mainly related to environmental ethics of owner-managers, with cost savings from ecoefficiency actions ranked second (Table 4).…”

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Climate Change and Sustainable Tourism: Carbon Mitigation by Environmentally Certified Tourism Enterprises

Zeppel¹,

Beaumont²

2014

Tourism Review International

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travel-related activities that contribute to climate change. In response, government departments and tourism agencies have supported carbon mitigation strategies based on ecoefficiency actions to reduce GHG emissions and operational costs for the travel CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: CARBON MITIGATION BY ENVIRONMENTALLY CERTIFIED TOURISM ENTERPRISESHEATHER ZEPPEL AND NARELLE BEAUMONT Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, AustraliaTourism is susceptible to the impacts of climate change on destinations and businesses, but also contributes to the causes of climate change via greenhouse gas emissions from travel. This article reports on carbon mitigation actions by environmentally certified tourism enterprises in Queensland, Australia. The survey results profile attitudes to climate change, emissions auditing, carbon mitigation actions, and motives for emissions reduction. The study revealed that most operators believed climate change was an important issue for tourism and had implemented a range of carbon mitigation actions in energy, water, and waste reduction. The most popular actions were energy efficiency and reducing energy use, while less popular measures were adopting renewable energy and carbon offsetting. Tourism operators preferred lower cost actions that were easy to implement and would provide cost savings. The key motives for tourism operators implementing these carbon actions related to ecological responsibility and business competitiveness via cost savings and differentiating their business as "climate friendly." These motivations align with general business principles driving the implementation of socially and environmentally responsible practices by companies. The findings suggest that environmentally certified tourism enterprises now consider emissions reduction measures to be an integral part of sustainable tourism development.Key words: Climate change; Carbon mitigation; Environmental certification; Ecoefficiency actions; Sustainable tourism IntroductionThe tourism industry is susceptible to the physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change on destinations and businesses. Tourism also generates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport and 162 ZEPPEL AND BEAUMONT could be adopted (WTO & UNEP, 2008 (WTTC, 2009). However, as noted by Scott (2011), these are "aspirational" targets that, without specific plans for achieving them, may be interpreted largely as rhetoric.In Australia, the national government responded to this issue by establishing a National Tourism and Climate Change Taskforce, producing a national action plan for tourism and climate change, a climate change guide for tourism operators supplemented by industry workshops, and a tourism strategy that included climate change issues (Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism [DRET], 2008[DRET], , 2009[DRET], , 2011. National, state, and territory government tourism agencies in Australia have also responded by providing information on climate ch...

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Carbon Footprint of the Global Hotel Companies: Comparison of Methodologies and Results

Cited by 35 publications

References 22 publications

Sustainability Reporting and Certification in Tourism

Sustainability Reporting and Certification in Tourism

Carbon labels in tourism: persuasive communication?

Climate Change and Sustainable Tourism: Carbon Mitigation by Environmentally Certified Tourism Enterprises

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