“…Another US company, Best Western (2012) presents a more general pledge indicating that its hotels use a number of environmentally-friendly practices, from recycling bins to multiple-application programs for the use of geothermal and solar energy. Likewise, large hotels in Russia are already implementing resource-efficient technologies such as: change of the lighting systems to energy-efficient ones, use of natural renewable energy sources as an additional measure, and, in some cases, economical water consumption in the F&B department and integration of the "smart house" system into the hotel infrastructure to fully cover the heating costs (Alekseeva et al, 2018). Furthermore, research comparing independent and chain affiliated hotels in Melbourne, Australia, to examine specific environmentally sustainable practices found out that most large hotel companies displayed environmental policy on their web pages while the smaller independent hotels did not (Khatter et al, 2019).…”