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Chapter 12

The document discusses how hotels can adapt their practices to align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides an overview of hotel industry efforts on the environment and outlines ways hotels can compartmentalize functions, communicate goals, develop new metrics, and revisit strategies to follow the SDGs. Benefits of alignment include driving growth, addressing risk, attracting investment, refocusing on business importance, and increasing brand appeal.

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Chapter 12

The document discusses how hotels can adapt their practices to align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides an overview of hotel industry efforts on the environment and outlines ways hotels can compartmentalize functions, communicate goals, develop new metrics, and revisit strategies to follow the SDGs. Benefits of alignment include driving growth, addressing risk, attracting investment, refocusing on business importance, and increasing brand appeal.

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Chapter 12: Environment and Sustainability Using the SDG as a guide for hotels to compartmentalize

each of their main operating functions, how can hotels


Overview: adapt their current practices accordingly?
- The American Hotel and Lodging Association
- Define and commit-identify areas of major functions
(AHLA) formed a standing committee for a quality
of the department that may be influenced by the
atmosphere in the early 1970s, acknowledging a
SDGs.
need for environmental consideration.
- Alignment communicates with stakeholders on how
- Internationally: A host awareness-raising campaigns
to align the SDG w/ the policies and goals of a hotel.
have been initiated by the International Hotel and
- Develop goals and KPIs develop new key
Restaurant Association, the World Travel and
performance indicators (KPIs) that are aligned with
Tourism Council, and the International Hotel
the SDGs.
Environment Initiative to help recognize and
- Revisit business strategy determine how current
mitigate environmental impacts.
activities in various divisions can be modified to
- In the Philippines: The Philippine Council for
follow the SDGs.
Sustainable Development oversees formulation of
Philippine Agenda 21,
Advantages
- It drives growth
Motivation for Care for the Atmosphere
- It addresses risk
- Economic Interests
- It attracts investment
o Ex. reducing energy consumption and by
- It refocuses on business importance
extension, in reducing pollution from power - It increases brand appeal
plants that generate less electricity now. - It appeals to a broader audience
- Regulatory Concerns - It pays off your commitment
o Legislation requiring recycling, water usage
limit due to shortages, controls on pollution and
discharges, and other environmental constraints
mean that concern regarding environmental
problems.
- Business Dynamics
o There are many dimensions on the role of
market factors in motivating concern over
environmental issues:(1) The demand for
ecotourism that developed in the 1990s; (2)
there are environmental issues that are
important to global tour operators; (3) the
growing criteria for supplier / vendor
environmental certification by the global
business community through the ISO 14000 set
of standards.
- Dimension of Social Responsibility
o The relationship of environmental policy with
corporate social responsibility is acknowledged
by many businesses, both inside and outside the
hospitality industry.
Conservation and Management of Energy

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