Minimizing Waste in the Hospitality Industry DOI

Abdul Waaje,

Rejaul Karim,

Md. Mustaqim Roshid

et al.

Advances in hospitality, tourism and the services industry (AHTSI) book series, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 125 - 166

Published: Sept. 20, 2024

Despite economic difficulties, global warming, and the ongoing recovery from pandemic, hospitality industry, a key player in economy, is under more urgency to adopt sustainable practices. This chapter examines 'Lean Hospitality,' an approach industry that borrows lean concepts manufacturing operations strengthen efficiency, reduce waste, satisfy customers more. It how these have changed they manage different kinds of such as solids, liquids, gases, food choices, potentially hazardous materials. The 5S Lean Philosophy, Value Stream Mapping, Standardized Work, Poka-Yoke are some methodologies studied see might promote operational excellence continuous improvement, offering promising future for industry. Examples real-world advantages disadvantages provided through case studies, including Ritz-Carlton Riyadh's effective implementation.

Language: Английский

Sustainability-Oriented Resilience and Regenerative Adaptations in the Hospitality Industry: Lessons from Gauteng DOI Creative Commons
Stanley Kagisho, Erica São João

Studia Periegetica, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 46(2), P. 135 - 156

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

The South African hospitality sector faces significant challenges, including economic instability, climate change, and evolving consumer preferences. To effectively address these issues, hotels must adopt innovative resilience regenerative strategies. This study is based on insights from theory, service-dominant logic (SDL), ecological modernisation theory. find out how challenges are addressed in practice, the authors conducted semi-structured interviews with hotel managers province of Gauteng to collect data for an in-depth thematic analysis. Examples strategies mentioned by interviewees include effective crisis management, income diversification, building robust community partnerships. Asked about practices, respondents listed waste reduction, enhancing biodiversity conservation, investing sustainable infrastructure. These practices correspond Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 9 1, which target development resilient infrastructure poverty eradication. advocate a holistic approach integrates innovation, active engagement, environmental stewardship, fostering meaningfuland enduring advancements within industry.

Language: Английский

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Antecedents of Sustainable Performance in Hotels: The Mediating Role of Green Innovation Strategy DOI
Philip Opoku Mensah, Henry Mensah, Benjamin Appiah Osei

et al.

International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 25

Published: April 21, 2025

Language: Английский

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0
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations – A food waste perspective DOI Creative Commons
Kalara McGregor, Susanne Becken, Sera Vada

et al.

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: May 11, 2024

Addressing food waste is a growing priority for hotel groups. However, aligning corporate sustainability goals with the practicalities of individual hotels challenging. While increasingly adopt certification programs to enable transparency on performance, there risk that compliance-based assessment systems may not fully capture nuances each hotel's local context. The notion regeneration, emphasizing reinvestment in people, place and natural world, offers potential bridge gap between targets, operations outcomes. Food waste, recoverable through biological cycle, aligns principles regeneration. This study explores perspectives practitioners involved benchmarking those advocating regeneration tourism sector. whether compliance are sufficient account challenges associated regenerative enhancements could be conceptualised. Through in-depth interviews, research reveals divide across key areas. A conceptual framework introduced, highlighting areas convergence enhance existing – ultimate aim helping reconsider their relationship ecological system.

Language: Английский

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2
The transnational frontier of resort master plans: a gateway to borderless legacies for the environment and humanity DOI Creative Commons
Hana Ayala

Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 3

Published: July 1, 2024

The article departs from the evolving concept and practice of tourism hotel industry's environmental stewardship, with a special emphasis on initiatives inspired by latest United Nations' agreements to tackle global warming reverse biodiversity loss. It singles out international resort enterprise for its unmatched yet dormant potential deliver transformational insights into borders-blind linkages relationships shaped evolutionary ecological forces interwoven in marvel fragility our living planet. This move is corroborated analyses latent economic power wonder embedded natural world's infinite connectivity emboldened promise via comparisons ever-grander ambition science philanthropy eco-philanthropy. makes case supplies blueprint new generation products portfolios master-planned shepherd sustain through their business model transnational routes awareness guardianship “one Earth” facilitate science-charted recalibration conservation strategies.

Language: Английский

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1
Business education and its paradoxes: Linking business and biodiversity through critical pedagogy curriculum DOI Creative Commons
Helen Kopnina, Alice C. Hughes, Ruopiao Zhang

et al.

British Educational Research Journal, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: July 10, 2024

Abstract The Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies and investors to publish data on their nature‐related risks, dependencies impacts. These disclosures are intended drive businesses recognise, manage mitigate reliance ecosystem goods services. However, there is a ‘biodiversity blind spot’ that evident for most organisations business schools. Business education rarely addresses root causes of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable exploitation natural resources. As dominant positioning Education Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) presents anthropocentric instrumental terms inadequate addressing decline, we posit more progressive transformative ecocentric through ecopedagogy ecoliteracy needed. Both approaches include development critical thinking about degrowth, circular economy conventional stakeholder theory non‐human stakeholders. Using comparative case studies from Northumbria University, University Hong Kong Amsterdam Applied Sciences, illustrate how can be transformed address providing theoretical guidance practical recommendations academic practitioners future leaders.

Language: Английский

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Was bedeutet Nachhaltigkeit in der Hotellerie und Gastronomie? DOI

Burkhard von Freyberg,

Axel Gruner,

Willy Legrand

et al.

Springer eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 23

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

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Minimizing Waste in the Hospitality Industry DOI

Abdul Waaje,

Rejaul Karim,

Md. Mustaqim Roshid

et al.

Advances in hospitality, tourism and the services industry (AHTSI) book series, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 125 - 166

Published: Sept. 20, 2024

Despite economic difficulties, global warming, and the ongoing recovery from pandemic, hospitality industry, a key player in economy, is under more urgency to adopt sustainable practices. This chapter examines 'Lean Hospitality,' an approach industry that borrows lean concepts manufacturing operations strengthen efficiency, reduce waste, satisfy customers more. It how these have changed they manage different kinds of such as solids, liquids, gases, food choices, potentially hazardous materials. The 5S Lean Philosophy, Value Stream Mapping, Standardized Work, Poka-Yoke are some methodologies studied see might promote operational excellence continuous improvement, offering promising future for industry. Examples real-world advantages disadvantages provided through case studies, including Ritz-Carlton Riyadh's effective implementation.

Language: Английский

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0