An Analytical Study Of Environmental Management Practices In The Hospitality Industry

Abstract

We are reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we have placed on her, if newlinewe do not lift the burden ourselves newlineThis quote by Steve Greeve is alarming enough and highlights the significance for everyone to newlinecontribute to the cause of environmental conservation. In the middle of 20th century, when our newlineplanet was seen from the space first time, our earth was like fragile ball with pattern of clouds, newlinesoils, oceans and greenery. But now humanity fits its activity in the planetary pattern causing newlinevarious changes which is now accompanied by life threatening hazardous situation. The newlineenvironmental sustainability is the new concept to save the world from human activities. People newlinewant to hand down a clean earth to their descendants. So going green and making a green choice newlinein everything we do is the only choice and the way ahead. newlineWorldwide hotel industry has brought remarkable success and changes in the personal satisfaction, newlinehowever has likewise made tremendous measures of modern, customer and business waste and newlineharmful gases. Hospitality industry has been increasingly troubled about environmental issues. In newlinecomparison to other industries, hotels are certainly not the frontrunners in consumption of natural newlineresources. However hotel operations 24 by 7 generate huge volumes of waste and discharge waste newlinewater, fumes which would have detrimental effect on our environment. newlineSustainable development is the basic principle of environment management. The hospitality sector newlineof India is observing sustained growth trends. Hotel industry has an inescapable relation to tourism newlineindustry and development in tourism industry of India has fuelled the expansion of hotel industry newlineof India. This situation causes even greater concern because the consumption by the guests in five newlinestar hotels rises far above consumption by local residents. It was watched further that the newlinesignificance of environmental management frameworks in the tourism business had newlineextraordinarily expanded as of late.