Do environmentally sustainable practices make hotels more efficient? A study of major hotels in Sri Lanka

Kularatne, Thamarasi; Wilson, Clevo; Månsson, Jonas; Hoang, Viet‐Ngu; Lee, Boon L.

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2018.09.009

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“…ATBHs were chosen for this research as there are limited studies in the environmental literature focused on this type of small-scale accommodation. So far, most studies regarding water and energy saving measures in the tourism industry are focused on hotels [42,[97][98][99][100][101], as these firms usually have big accommodation capacities, intensive water and energy consumption, as well as high related costs. ATBHs meet additional challenges in implementing water and energy savings due to their size and limited financial power, but also due to the lower environmental attitudes and behaviors of their owner-managers.…”

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Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

2019

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Small accommodation businesses such as agritourism boarding houses (ATBHs) provide a large share of accommodating capacity in certain rural destinations. Despite their small accommodation capacity, ATBHs consume substantial quantities of water and energy; this consumption implies high environmental costs. The present study aims to explore opinions of ATBH owner-managers regarding water and energy consumption in their businesses, what motivates them to adopt environmental practices, and the specific saving measures used within the tourist accommodation units they manage. A qualitative research was conducted, using semi-structured interviews among 12 Romanian ATBH owner-managers. Data analysis revealed that the interviewed owner-managers understand the importance of natural resource conservation in tourist destinations but they are not willing or have insufficient financial, time, organizational resources, etc. to engage in serious water and energy saving initiatives. Moreover, most interviewed managers indicated that tourists cannot make a significant contribution to natural resources conservation in accommodation units and perceive water and energy saving systems as more effective than the environmental education of visitors in their facility. These findings may be useful to tourism policy-makers and environmental organizations in order to develop effective environmental strategies in ATBHs.

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Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

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“…Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a representative nonparametric frontier approach, and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) is a representative parametric frontier approach. DEA has been extensively used to evaluate the efficiency of hotels (Hwang and Chang, 2003;Barros, 2005;Perrigot et al, 2009;Assaf and Agbola, 2011;Brida et al, 2012;Oliveira et al, 2013a;Manasakis et al, 2013;Detotto et al, 2014;Huang et al, 2012;Solana-Ibáñez et al, 2016;Lado-Sestayo and Fernández-Castro, 2019;Kularatne et al, 2019).…”

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“…(4), we follow the widely used intermediation approach and consider the availability of data. We characterize two proxies for inputs: K is gross fixed assets (Pulina et al, 2010), and L is the total number of employees (Hwang and Chang, 2003;Assaf et al, 2010;Kularatne et al, 2019). We define our output in line with Hao et al (2014) as Y total revenue.…”

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Higher tourism specialization, better hotel industry efficiency?

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Zhou

et al. 2020

International Journal of Hospitality Management

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A B S T R A C TThis study examines the effects of both specialization in tourism and market competition on the efficiency of the hotel industry. For this purpose, stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) was employed to evaluate the efficiency of the hotel industry on a provincial level in China and to analyze how it is impacted by specialization in tourism and market competition. The results confirm that tourism specialization and market competition exert a synergistic effect on hotel industry efficiency in China. This study finds that tourism development as represented by a high level of tourism specialization by a destination does not guarantee high efficiency in hotels but does enhance the negative effect of market competition on hotel industry efficiency. Significant policy and managerial implications stem from these findings.

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“…In light of the growing ecological deterioration, sustainable development has emerged as noteworthy priority and a veritable challenge of our time (Alameeri, Ajmal, Hussain, & Helo, ; Ashraf et al, ; Melissen et al, ; Yarimoglu & Binboga, ). Consequently, in the hotel domain, environmental responsiveness is now steadily becoming a corporate issue (Chen, Ngniatedema, & Li, ; Chen, ; Kularatne et al, ). Therefore, hoteliers should address sustainability at all levels from policies formulation to final performance which is the criterion of achieving superior performance (Jenkins & Karanikola, ).…”

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“…The strict regulatory policies have been seen as a vital source to improve environmental management in hotels. Furthermore, an increasing number of environmentally conscious guests are driving many hotels to implement sustainability practices (Aragon‐Correa, Martin‐Tapia, & de la Torre‐Ruiz, ; Kularatne, Clevo, Mansson, Hoang, & Lee, ).…”

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Measuring the impact of sustainability policy and practices in tourism and hospitality industry

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This paper aims to investigate the impact of environmental policy and training aspects on hotels' sustainability practices, as well as the impact of these practices on their environmental and financial performance. Based on survey data from 312 managers operating in tourism and hospitality industry, this study applies structural equation modelling. Empirical results reveal that hotels' environmental policy and training aspects are positively related to sustainability practices. Environmental communication has almost equal degree of impact on resource and energy conservation, whereas both resource conservation and energy conservation have a significant positive impact on both environmental and financial performance. The main findings of this research highlight that hotels are increasingly considering sustainability issues in their business models and strategies. These findings provide practical managerial implications for the development of tourism and hospitality industry in emerging countries.

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Do environmentally sustainable practices make hotels more efficient? A study of major hotels in Sri Lanka

Cited by 155 publications

References 64 publications

Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

Higher tourism specialization, better hotel industry efficiency?

Measuring the impact of sustainability policy and practices in tourism and hospitality industry

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