Making hotels more energy efficient: the managerial perception

Abstract

The boom of the tourism industry has led to a huge interest in investing largely in hotel lodgings. Tourists have become aware and started considering new and far from ordinary tourist issues, like environmental protection, waste treatment measures, energy efficiency, renewable energy, green-house gas emissions, etc. The aims of the study are three-fold: (i) to assess the application of energy efficiency practices in the hotel industry; (ii) to explore the determinants of energy consumption; and (iii) to pose valuable recommendations for boosting development of eco-friendly hotels. The research was conducted in Macedonia for the purpose of identifying the impacts of several factors of managing environmental protection practices, in the first line by measuring their current level of influence. The data were obtained by an online survey conducted among managers of three-, four-and five-star hotels and processed by descriptive statistics. The results showed that managers have high positive perceptions on environmental protection issues and pose high awareness of the benefits produced by this concept, thus supporting the European environmental impact assessment regulation. The study recommends new approaches in challenging the hotel industry to decrease the operating costs and suggests that managers are in need for better understanding of the importance of energy efficiency.

Knowledge of managerial competencies: cross-cultural analysis between American and European students

“…The cultural diversity among them differs from country to country. Hofstede and McCrae (1984, 1991, 2004, Schein (1992), Trompenaars (1994), House (1998), Triandis (2004), and more recently Lustin andKoester (2009), Lakshman (2013), Adil (2014), Podrug, Filipovi c and Stan ci c (2014), Akram, Ley, Haider, Hussain and Puig (2017), Bucur (2017) and Cingoski and Petrevska (2018) suggest a need to understand different cultural dimensions and their relation with managerial competencies in a global environment. Understanding the possible correlations among knowledge, competencies and crosscultural management should be a determinant factor in order to improve managerial performance at work.…”

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

“…Jenkins and Karanikol (2014) claimed that, inevitably, hotels needs to involve in acquiring superior ecological performance through confining the emission, waste, and water and energy consumption due to the fact that these are core areas of improving revenue. In fact, hotels have experienced that superior environmental performance increases the demand of their hotel which further influenced their sale, profitability, and environmentally based competitive edge (Cingoski & Petrevska, ; Leonidou et al, ). All in all, the subsequent hypotheses can be proposed:H10 Environmental performance is positively related to financial performance.…”

“…To achieve this aim, Teng et al (2012) identified several indicators to measure and improve energy conservation and emission performance. According to Cingoski and Petrevska (2018), management support and employee engagement are predictors of energy conservation, emission reduction, and sustainable development.…”

“…Empirical evidence demonstrates that sustainable initiative scan be financially beneficial through reducing running cost (Cingoski & Petrevska, ), following unique competitive implications, demands for hotels, customer satisfaction and trustworthiness, and regulatory compliance (Berezan et al, ). Nevertheless, to enjoy these benefits, appropriate environmental policies and strategies to better meet the growing sophisticated needs of the guests and strengthening external collaboration are necessary (Berezan et al, ).…”

Motivation For Implementing Resource Efficient Technologies In Activity Of Russian Hotels

“…It is advisable to start with the training and preparation of the hotel staff, the next step is to implement a set of measures to improve services, and, further, to receive green or ECO certificates for business to cope with ever-growing competition (Cingoski, Vlatko, Petrevska & Biljana, 2018).…”