Importance Of Environmental Issues In The Hospitality Industry

With continuously increasing of the social development, more and more human being pay attention to environmental issues that could be hurting for the place where we are living, as well as, threatening for our future. Thus, the environmental problem is very important that people need to take into consideration such as global climate change, deforestation, food and water shortages, air quality, and pollution and so on. “There is enough in the world for everyone’s need; there is not enough for everyone’s greed.”- Mahatma Gandhi. Expect we consume food and water in our daily life, we consume some of goods and services, and the amount is increasing. For example, books, computers, entertainment, luxury goods and travel. However, peoples’ desire of …show more content…
However, hotels forgot that there has lots of non-environmental issues existed that create a lot of negative impacts. For example, the hotels consume energy for lighting, air condition and cooking fuel. Moreover, hotels contribute water on bathrooms, laundry, cleaning and maintenance, sewage and so on. Also, the existence of building or tourist destination may destroy a good surrounding for native animals. Nevertheless, the hospitality industry is one of the largest industries, therefore, the environmental issues become more important in hospitality industry and cannot be ignored, which owners and managers should pay attention and deal with those …show more content…
Therefore, having a ranking is useful and helpful in sustainable development. It could be rank within each county or city and then combine together to compare between country and country. In this competition, the higher performer will receive the reward or certificate from the association which proves the hotel is on the right track of sustainable development. By receiving the reward, the hotel will increase its reputation which means it does not care only its revenue but the global issue. As a matter of fact, it is good to always have someone better; if everyone always compares with the low performer and the result will not be