...sUStAINABLE MANAGEMENT How Environmentally Sustainable Management Measures Up to Luxury June 7, 2015 Jill Boyd Dr. Michael Conlin Buad 390 – Properties Management June 7, 2015 Jill Boyd Dr. Michael Conlin Buad 390 – Properties Management Table of Contents Sustainable Management Initiatives 2 How Hotel Ratings Are Determined 4 5 Star Hotels – Ritz Carleton 4 4 Star Hotels – Hyatt 5 3 Star Hotels – Hilton 7 2 Star Hotels – Days Inn (Wyndham) 8 1 Star Hotels – Econo Lodge 9 Conclusion 9 Bibliography 10 In today’s world environmentally sustainable management is an important issue in many industries. The tourism industry has a large impact on the economic benefits of a country by increasing jobs, increasing income, and GDP. However, the tourism industry also has a great impact on the environment. These environmental impacts are not always as positive as economical one. It is important for hotels to help their communities by reducing their carbon footprint. It is for this reason, that many hotel chains have created environmental sustainability strategies. In this essay, I will briefly discuss agenda 21, and other sustainable management initiatives. I will also examine, several different hotel chains, in an attempt to see if their environmental strategies are consistent with a hotel’s rating. Sustainable Management Initiatives Agenda 21 was presented at the World Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Its purpose it “to provide a blueprint for securing the...
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...Organizational and Social Environment Hilton hotel Prepared By Raize Hassam(CB004338) Module Code & Title Cohort FF1221 Date of Submission 15/09/2011 Instructor Ms. Sankapali Gunawardena Word Count 2000 Acknowledgement The authors would like to first of all thank her managing business lecturers Mrs.Shumara and Ms. Sankapali Gunawardena for all the support and guide he gave her to finish this assignment successfully. The authors would also like to thank her parents and friends for all their commitments and encouragement. Last but not the least the authors would like to thank the administration for all the facilities they have provided which made it easy to complete this assignment on time. Abstract As assigned by the lecturers Ms.Shurmara Fernando and Ms.Sankapali Gunawardena for the module Organizational and Social Environment, the authors were required to investigate research and observe an area of Internal and External Business Environment in any local business organization. Therefore the authors selected “Colombo Hilton Hotel” to do their research according to the assignment. So to do this research the authors visited Hilton Hotel in order to gather information...
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...How Can Social Psychology Assist Towards Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry? Human society has developed into a stage where environmental issues have become an international concern. A focus and worry on climate change is completely essential. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the planet is warming faster than previously predicted. Madeleen Helmer is Head of the Red Cross and Red Crescent climate change center in the Netherlands. She says problems caused by climate change will not go away and must be addressed (Schlein, 2009). We need to be cautious that it is not a rush to focus on climate change without considering the physical and psychological reasons that have caused it. Figuring out why the problem...
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...Ones and Dilchert’s article: the creation of organizational cultures. Here, we will develop the idea of how culture, value creation, and competitive advantage are linked to environmental sustainability. We will briefly illustrate our arguments with findings from our case-study research in the hospitality industry in 13 Iberoamerican countries.1 1. Ours is research in progress, based on qualitative and mixed research methods. It aims to analyze the role of sustainability in the hospitality sector in Iberoamerica: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America (concretely, in Chile, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic). Organizational culture and sustainability Sustainability and Organizational Culture There is a nascent body of literature that aims to understand how companies can embed sustainability in their organizational cultures (Howard-Grenville & Bertels, 2012). For these authors, culture has been conceptualized as shared norms or values (reinforced through the role of leaders and ‘‘champions,’’ the allocation of resources, the use of incentives, and the existence of corporate policies), as a frame or filter (that is, as recursive connections between people’s day-to-day actions and the meanings associated with them), and as a toolkit (made malleable by individual actors who use cultural resources in new ways). Among the myriad of conceptualizations available, Ulrich and Brockbank...
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...Österreichischen Tourismus [Online], Available: http://www.seilbahn.net/thema/nachhaltigkeit.pdf [25 March 2011]. Berg, B.L. (2009) Qualitative Research Methods for Social Sciences, 7th edition, Boston: Pearson. Berry, S. and Ladkin, A. (1997) ‘Sustainable tourism: a regional perspective’, Tourism Management, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 433-440. Blackburn, W.R. (2007) The sustainability handbook – The complete management guide to achieving social, economic and environmental sustainability, London: Earthscan. Black, T.R. (1993) Evaluating Social Science Research: An Introduction, London: Sage. Black, K. (2009) Business Statistics: Contemporary Decision Making, 6th edition, Jefferson City: John Wiley and Sons. Bmwfj (2011a) Die Organisation des Tourismus [Online] Available: http://www.bmwfj.gv.at/-Tourismus/TourismusInOesterreich/Documents/organisationshandbuch%20J%C3%A4nner%202011.pdf [10 Feb 2011]. Bmwfj (2011b) Tourismuspolitische Aktivitäten [Online], Available: http://www.bmwfj.gv.at/Tourismus/TourismuspolitischeAktivitaeten/Seiten/Nachhaltigkeit.aspx [19 Jul 2011]. Bohdanowicz, P. and Martinac, I. (2003) ‘Attitudes towards sustainability in chain hotels – Results of a European survey’, Conference Proceedings, CIB 2003 International Conference on smart and sustainable built environment, Brisbane. Bohdanowicz, P.; Zanki-Alujevic, V. and Martinac, I. (2004) ‘Attitudes towards...
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...consumers perceive any given company. However, some companies still try to get away with their social responsibilities, as those responsibilities are often associated with high costs for the companies. This essay will assess Hilton Hotels Corporations’ approach towards CSR, by reviewing and analyzing few different cases of unethical behavior from the above mentioned corporation. Moreover, such analysis will be done with regard to three different myths CSR. HILTON OVERVIEW Hilton was founded in 1919 and since then it has been a global leader in the hospitality industry. As of 2015, there are more then 4,300 Hilton branded hotels in 94 countries around six continents. Hilton directly owns some of these hotels, they manage some and some are franchised to other companies. It is run by CEO Christopher J. Nassetta. According to the Hilton’s official web site the mission of their strategic giving is to harness their passion and expertise to address the social, economic and sustainability issues that impact Hilton’s business and are important to the communities where we work and live. OVERVIEW OF THE CASE There are two cases that are enough to critically evaluate Hiltons CSR behavior. The first is as follows. In 2007, Blackstone group bought Hilton for $20 billion. According to the press the price...
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...The state of sustainability in the hospitality industry and what the future holds Akram Abubaker HADM 3310 Th 430 Over the past decade, the hotel industry is trying to find ways to become more socially and environmentally acceptable. Hotels alone take up about 5 billion square feet of space and with over 5 million guest rooms. Along with that, they accumulate about $5 billion in energy usage. With people using it for leisure or business trips, they can help contribute to the environment. People traveling for business altogether make around 400 million business trips every year. The lodging industry can make an impact on the environment easily by seeing how much people use it. Most operations in the hotel have trouble implementing energy efficient innovations. Hotels ingest energy for HVAC operations, lighting, cooking fuel, and other miscellaneous things. Hotel can implement innovations by producing renewable energy, using hybrid or alternative fuel transportation fleet, and facility designed with sustainable materials that maximizes energy efficiency. Renewable energy is one of the implementations that is trending and they are doing it through a new program called LEED. LEED is certificate program that promotes transformation of buildings and how they are constructed, maintained, and operated. It takes a more performance-based approach to endorse the comfort of occupants through enhancing the quality their indoor environment. More and more hotels will apply...
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...BHP Billiton Sustainability Report Case Executive summary This short paper discusses relevant stakeholders that the multinational conglomerate company BHP Billiton encloses in their 2013 Sustainability Report. The components that are briefly touched upon is related to the various stakeholder influences, report and not reported costs (referring to the triple bottom line), but the majority of the paper primarily focuses on the environmental and social factors that BHP Billiton discloses in relation to their sustainability program, because the indicators seem to have the biggest impact on the outward-looking legitimacy of the company. We found that NGOs, local communities and unions highly affect how BHP chooses to report their operations, as these organizations/interest groups have a very close relationship to the firm; both negatively and positively. Furthermore, the paper tries to account for costs not included in BHP’s sustainability report, and it appear that some of these are cost-reporting on corruption, specific environmental issues, anticompetitive behaviour, and transportation. The paper do recognize that BHP is in fact a very active proponent of sustainability reporting, but on the other hand do question to what extent the reporting actually reflect the company’s inner workings, as BHP has been publicly criticised for this before. Question A: Influence of all possible stakeholders of BHP Billiton in terms of environmental and social factors. BHP...
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...THE TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM WORLD WIDE SUSTAINBALE TOURISM – A PRELUDE: Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the global economy. The developing countries are attempting to cash in on this expanding industry with the objective to boost their foreign investment and financial reserves. The uncontrolled growth of this industry can result in serious environmental and social problems. Organizations like the United Nations contend that such negative effects can be controlled and reduced. With the basic tenet that ‘TOURISM NEEDS TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE', the world body ( WTO- world trade organization) organized a meeting with the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. This meeting aimed at bringing together national and local governments, the tourism industry, trade unions and activist groups to articulate the principles and the road map for the goal of sustainable tourism, which is popularly known as Ecotourism. OPPORTUNITIES ON THE WALL: If we consider the International travel statistics, it is clear that in 1950, from a 25 million tourists, it grew to a billion by 2012. 1 billion international tourists traveling the world in a single year. Around 5 billion more traveled domestically within their own countries. These tourists generated over US$ 1 trillion in exports for the countries they visited, which is close to 6% of the world’s exports of goods and services, and 30% of exports if we consider services alone. One in every 12 jobs worldwide...
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...HILTON WORLDWIDE Hilton Worldwide (Hilton) is a leading global hospitality company which was established in the year 1919 by its founder Conrad Hilton. Since then the company has expanded geographically, produced original hotel and travel concepts, and developed innovative technologies to enhance the guest experience. Their 93-year history as pioneers in the industry makes them the number one venue for travelers, developers, partners, and team members alike. The company was until recently known as Hilton Hotels Corporation. The new Hilton Worldwide is now owned by the private equity firm "The Blackstone Group". The name Hilton Worldwide signifies the company’s global breadth and reach. Hilton Worldwide retains a chain of hotels from luxurious full-service hotels and resorts to extended stay suites and mid-priced hotels. This means that Hilton Worldwide is mainly focused on the lodging sector. One of the world's largest hoteliers is operated by Hilton. This includes a lodging empire of over 3,900 hotels and resorts in almost 91 countries. The company provides services that include lodging rooms, health and fitness facilities, and meeting facilities, dining options, swimming pools, exercise facilities, laundry facilities and spa treatments. Hilton operates and maintains a trusted portfolio of brands such as, Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, and Homewood Suites etc. Additionally, the company also operates...
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...| Environmental and Sustainability Management Educating hotel guests and tourists | BUAD 390 | | | | Table of Contents Introduction 2 Findings 2 Situation 2 Problem 4 Solution 6 Evaluation 6 Conclusion 7 Recommendations 8 References 9 Introduction This report will look at exactly why it is so important to educate hotel guests and tourists about environmental sustainability. Tourism is one of the top service industries in the world, there is millions of dollars being used to fund these beautiful destinations; equally as much money should be invested to keep the environment sustainable. It’s good ethical practice; the humanistic argument is without a clean environment, human health will be harmed. Without stock of renewable resources for future generations, the lives of those will be poorer quality than ours. (Grace, Cohen, & Holmes, 2014)William Blackstone has quoted saying “everyone has the right to a livable environment, then others have an obligation to allow free enjoyment of this right.” (Grace, Cohen, & Holmes, 2014). The three main groups of guests hotel chains face concerning this matter are: the ones that care about the planet and society, the ones that ask what is in it for me, and the ones who couldn’t be bothered. It is up to hotels which type of guests they wish to cater to, keeping in mind that they risk damaging their relationship...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is a suggestion of which accounting technique should to be integrated into BHP Billiton’s contemporary management accounting system. Through in depth research this technique has been identified as the environmental management accounting technique. This result was achieved through the research of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis and the identification of the critical success factors. A balanced score card was then created using the information gathered to be used in identifying the most relevant technique. EMA was the technique decided upon as compared to the other techniques as it is the most relevant to BHP Billiton as their industry deals day to day with the environment and society. It will create awareness for the harm that is being done to the environment and will encourage them to create the minimum damage to the earth. It will also assess any repercussions of their actions that may affect society and bring harm to people. By integrating the EMA technique, it will help the organisation to collect the most relevant information to their situation and will assist in the planning, controlling and decision making within that organisation. This will improve the organisations strategy in which to help preserve the environment and also affect their financial state positively. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 1. INTRODUCTION 5 2. BHP BILLITON LTD 5 ...
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...Hilton Group Presentation Module: Strategic Management (MGT3170) Tutor: Stephane Bignoux Seminar: Thursday, 9am Group members Student Number Syarifah Nadzlira Myra Syed Abdul Rahman M00470174 Syed Nadim Armani Syed Abdul Rahman M00470173 Adefolaju Adeosun M00295266 Suna Balman M00242429 Company Background • • • • • • • Founded in 1946 by Conrad Hilton and based in McLean, VA It is a leading global hospitality company Owns, manages and develops hotels, resorts and timeshare properties, and lodging properties Acquired by The Blackstone Group on 24th October 2007 It is now the subsidiary of The Blackstone Group, an American private equity firm Well known for its award-winning customer loyalty program, Hilton HHonors The company’s brand portfolio are segmented into four categories; luxury, full service, focused service, lifestyle and vacation ownership General Business Environment ENVIRONMENTAL • Hilton incurs costs in order to comply with requirements and potential liabilities under various local and foreign environmental laws and regulations; For example, laws on storage and disposal of hazardous substances (Hilton Worldwide, 2013). • Hilton managed to be the first hotel to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard for reducing its carbon footprint (Murray, 2009). POLITICAL • The threat of terrorism in the UK is increasing this is indicated with the current threat level being severe ...
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...Retention of Visitor spending: The key to achieving economic sustainability for tourism in (i.e. California and Giants Causeway) is maximising the economic retention of tourist spending in your local economy. The sustainable tourism businesses need to develop strategies that are capable of meeting the long-term economic needs and aspirations of the local community. If the communities are engaged by tourism organisations as stakeholders in tourism, and economic partners in the tourism industry, this will actively support local tourism businesses. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry and has far-reaching economic and environmental impact across the destinations; hence, if tourism is an important source of local employment and a significant buyer of local goods and services, residents are more likely to be supportive. The business operators and local communities need to work together to maximise local economic benefits as well as the positive impacts of destinations. The possible strategies to use to manage responsible tourism are, seeking out ways to include local service providers and producers in your business, encourage your local business suppliers to develop sustainable goods and services that reflect local nature, history and culture. Widening access to facilities: One of the key challenges for Responsible Tourism is to broaden access. The local governors would need to approach their responsible side to the tourism facilities to make it more sustainable and using tourism...
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