Water use efficiency in the hotel sector of Barbados

Charara, Nadim; Cashman, Adrian; Bonnell, R. B.; Gehr, Ronald

doi:10.1080/09669582.2010.502577

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“…Due to the latest scientific and politic reactions and to late evolving trends regarding tourism climate change relation more and more studies are approaching now the stakeholder attitudes and reactions on the issue. They are considered a key element for adaptation of recreational industry to the now uncontested climate change problem (Bicknell & McManus 2006;Nicholls & Holecek, 2008;Turton, Dickson, Hadwen, Jorgensen, Pham, Simmons, Tremblay & Wilson, 2010;Charara, Cashman, Bonnell & Gehr, 2011in Becken, 2013Trawoger, 2014, in press) as "the key players' awareness of climate change may determine whether effective action is taken" (Belle & Bramwell, 2005;Klint, Jiang, Law, De Lacy, Filep, Calgaro, Dominey-Howes & Harrison, 2012in Trawoger, 2014). …”

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Stakeholder perspectives on climate change effects on tourism activities in the northern Romanian Carpathians: Vatra Dornei resort case study

Dincăa¹,

Surugiu²,

Surugiu³

et al. 2014

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Abstract:Less approached by scientific literature, stakeholder perspective on the effects of climate change for tourism activities is a very actual topic. As an essential part of the complex study of climate -tourism relationship, it needs to be investigated and illustrated through study cases. The present paper approaches this original topic for Vatra Dornei complex spa and mountain resort. Located in the northern part of Romanian Carpathians this destination depends to a great extent on climate resources which show a clear variability of main parameters on which its outdoor activities are based. In this context the voice of stakeholders involved in the local tourism industry is of great importance to certify and illustrate previously obtained modelling evidences. The present paper consequently outlines the main results of a survey undertaken on the topic of climate change effects on tourism in Vatra Dornei in the attempt to better characterize this complex interrelationship.

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confidence: 99%

Stakeholder perspectives on climate change effects on tourism activities in the northern Romanian Carpathians: Vatra Dornei resort case study

Dincăa¹,

Surugiu²,

Surugiu³

et al. 2014

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“…On the one hand, Font (2006) suggested that "there is no systematic set of data that can demonstrate just how effective, and cost-effective, certification is for improving environmental, social, and economic performance," while Chan (2011) concluded from his study that small-and medium-sized hotels face obstacles in implementing such systems. Evidence from Barbados of the impact of environmental certification on resource use has suggested that there was no difference to overall resource use between certified and non-certified hotels (Charara et al, 2011). In contrast, there does appear to be growing interest among hotel chains to adopt forms of certification as a means of improving performance and image (Ibis, 2008;Font, 2006).…”

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“…where t is time and w is water use for the ith hotel in year t. This approach would also take into account the benchmarking of consumption against international best practice for different types of establishments (Hagler Bailly Services Inc., 2000;Deng and Burnett, 2002;Deng, 2003;Bohdanowicz et al, 2005;Bohdanowicz and Martinac, 2007;Charara et al, 2011). In this way, the only effect on normal business operations would be to encourage the hotel to find methods to save water.…”

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A market-based proposal for encouraging water use efficiency in a tourism-based economy

Cashman

Moore

2012

International Journal of Hospitality Management

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“…Early TWF studies mainly emphasized the direct water footprint calculations for tourism accommodations, swimming pools, spas and water parks [37][38][39][40][53][54][55][56]. In contrast, later studies have paid more attention to the comprehensive analysis of the TWF by including direct tourism water consumption and indirect tourism water consumption.…”

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Progress and Prospects for Tourism Footprint Research

Wang

Yi-yuan

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Sustainability

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Abstract:The tourism footprint family comprises the tourism ecological footprint (TEF), the tourism carbon footprint (TCF) and the tourism water footprint (TWF). The tourism footprint represents an important tool for quantitatively assessing the impact of tourism activities on the ecosystem of a tourist destination. This paper systematically reviews the relevant literature on TEF, TCF and TWF, analyses and summarizes the main progress and failures in the analytical frameworks, research methods, measurement results, environmental impacts and reductions in the tourism footprint. This paper also proposes areas for further developing the tourism footprint research, including unifying the analytical frameworks and boundaries of the tourism footprint, distinguishing the geographical scope of the tourism footprint effectively, improving the process of analyzing the environmental impact of the tourism footprint, measuring the tourism footprint scientifically and roundly, performing space-time calculations of the tourism footprint, and expanding the tourism footprint family by introducing new members. Accordingly, this paper is devoted to the continued study of the tourism footprint.

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Water use efficiency in the hotel sector of Barbados

Cited by 90 publications

References 8 publications

Stakeholder perspectives on climate change effects on tourism activities in the northern Romanian Carpathians: Vatra Dornei resort case study

Stakeholder perspectives on climate change effects on tourism activities in the northern Romanian Carpathians: Vatra Dornei resort case study

A market-based proposal for encouraging water use efficiency in a tourism-based economy

Progress and Prospects for Tourism Footprint Research

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