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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2017.1421994

Making hotels more energy efficient: the managerial perception

Vlatko Cingoski ; Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Goce Delcev University, Stip, Macedonia
Biljana Petrevska ; Faculty of Tourism and Business Logistics, Goce Delcev University, Stip, Macedonia


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str. 87-101

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Sažetak

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.

Ključne riječi

Efficiency; energy consumption; environment; hotel industry

Hrčak ID:

200644

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/200644

Datum izdavanja:

3.12.2018.

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