Evaluation of water saving measures in hotels: A Spanish case study

Ortí, Ramón Barberán; Egea, Pilar Torres; Gracia‐de‐Rentería, Pilar; Salvador, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.ijhm.2013.02.005

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“…Th is is a practice that is not typical in Greece but could result in signifi cant savings and reduction in the demand for water on the islands. Summarizing, the presented results are in accordance with those of Barberan et al (2013), who propose that investment in low cost water savings measures and actions can reduce the consumption of water without inconveniencing guests while increasing the fi nancial profi tability of a hotel.…”

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“…environment. Therefore, the successful implementation of water saving practices in small sized hotels should be encouraged since it contributes to tourism sustainability (Barberan et al 2013) and could attract specific groups of tourists that are willing to pay more for eco-friendly facilities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Efficiency in water consumption is an important factor in the evaluation of hotel sustainability; however, it still of low priority. Barberan et al (2013) show that a small investment in water saving practices could lead to a significant reduction in water consumption and its associated operating costs. In most of the energy-consuming activities in a hotel (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluation of water saving measures for mid-sized tourist lodging units: the case of Samos Island, Greece

Klontza

Kampragkou

Ververidis

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European Journal of Environmental Sciences

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Hotel sector causes significant environmental stress in both natural and built up areas due to their consumption of water and energy. In addition, the production of large volumes of liquid and solid waste results in a significant environmental footprint. The use of water and energy by hotels is strongly linked (e.g. energy is consumed for hot water, operation of the pool, preparation of meals, etc.) and usually referred to as the water -energy nexus. Thus, for big consumers like hotels, water and energy consumption should be addressed collectively as water-saving measures can lead to a reduction in energy consumption. The aim of this study is to assess the environmental performance of mid-sized hotel units by analyzing and quantifying their use of water. An analysis using a two-step approach was made of 8 accommodation facilities located on Samos Island, Greece: (i) a mapping of water use by adopting an end-use approach, and then (ii) an assessment of saving practices using three main criteria: savings, cost of investment and payback time. The preliminary results indicate that for small sized lodging units, water consumed inside the guest rooms accounts for the majority of all the water used and low-cost water saving measures and actions can reduce the pressure on water resources without disturbing guests, while increasing the financial profitability of a hotel.

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Evaluation of water saving measures for mid-sized tourist lodging units: the case of Samos Island, Greece

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Kampragkou

Ververidis

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European Journal of Environmental Sciences

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“…Accordingly, vocational education was the human resource training process of a business organization maintaining the employees' human quality and achieving the organizational objective (Park & Kim, 2014). Barberán et al (2013) indicated that an organization assisted the employees in learning the competence required for tasks; such competence contained knowledge, skills, or competence to determine the success of work performance. For employees, the purpose of education was to reinforce the knowledge, skills, and competence through the vocational education courses so as to apply what they learned to the daily tasks.…”

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A Study of the Affecting Vocational Education on Job Involvement and Job Burnout from the View of Venue Workers

Zhang

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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Typically, a teacher with more positive work values is more capable of handling the teaching jobs. He/she holds a more optimistic attitude toward the educational tasks and devotes more into teaching innovations. Similarly, during the non-formal learning process, a venue worker is analogous to a teacher for school education, his/her job involvement or job burnout conditions also affect the education within a venue. It is thus necessary to investigate the job involvement or job burnout conditions of venue workers. In order to inspect the influence vocational education and work values of venue workers on their job involvement and burnout conditions, 573 venue workers were selected in this study for the investigation by vocational education questionnaire, work values questionnaire, job involvement questionnaire, and job burnout questionnaire. The results are described as follows. 1. Vocational education have a significantly positive influence on job involvement. 2. Vocational education have a significantly positive influence on job burnout. 3. Work values have a significantly positive influence on job involvement. 4. Work values have a significantly positive influence on job burnout. Based on these results, we proposed recommendations accordingly so that the vocational education can bring its effects to the maximum degree and the off-campus studies for the public can be greatly enhanced.

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“…Water consumption not only varies between countries but also between comparable buildings in the same country. It is influenced by many factors, such as season and occupancy (Rankin and Rousseau, 2006;Barberán et al, 2013;Cobacho et al, 2005). In hotels, a significant part of water consumption is due to the needs of guests in their rooms.…”

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Non-residential water demand model validated with extensive measurements and surveys

Pieterse-Quirijns

Blokker

Blom³

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Drink. Water Eng. Sci.

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Abstract. Existing Dutch guidelines for the design of the drinking water and hot water system of nonresidential buildings are based on outdated assumptions on peak water demand or on unfounded assumptions on hot water demand. They generally overestimate peak demand values required for the design of an efficient and reliable water system. Recently, a procedure was developed based on the end-use model SIMDEUM to derive design-demand-equations for peak demand values of both cold and hot water during various time steps for several types and sizes of non-residential buildings, viz. offices, hotels and nursing homes. In this paper, the design-demand-equations are validated with measurements of cold and hot water patterns on a per second base and with surveys. The good correlation between the simulated water demand patterns and the measured patterns indicates that the basis of the design-demand-equations, the SIMDEUM simulated standardised buildings, is solid. Surveys were held to investigate whether the construction of the standardised buildings based on the dominant variable corresponds with practice. Surveys show that it is difficult to find relationships to equip the standardised buildings with users and appliances. However, the validation proves that with a proper estimation of the number of users and appliances in only the dominant functional room of the standardised buildings, SIMDEUM renders a realistic cold and hot water diurnal demand pattern. Furthermore, the new design-demand-equations based on these standardised buildings give a better prediction of the measured peak values for cold water flow than the existing guidelines. Moreover, the new design-demand-equations can predict hot water use well. In this paper it is illustrated that the new design-demand-equations lead to reliable and improved designs of building installations and water heater capacity, resulting in more hygienic and economical installations.

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Evaluation of water saving measures in hotels: A Spanish case study

Cited by 84 publications

References 14 publications

Evaluation of water saving measures for mid-sized tourist lodging units: the case of Samos Island, Greece

Evaluation of water saving measures for mid-sized tourist lodging units: the case of Samos Island, Greece

A Study of the Affecting Vocational Education on Job Involvement and Job Burnout from the View of Venue Workers

Non-residential water demand model validated with extensive measurements and surveys

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