There is no doubt that the world is changing from a social, economic and environmental point of view. For these reasons, modifying our habits is no longer an option, but a must; if we continue to consume at this speed we would need the resources of three Planet’s Earths in order to survive. Companies, such as the hospitality industry, have a key-role to play in the developing world because of their economic significance and their environmental impact (Chung and Parker, 2010). Luckily, in recent years, this industry is promoting sustainable alternatives to apply in their hotels and resorts around the world. A perfect example is the AccorHotels Company, which has developed a sustainable strategy called PLANET 21. Throughout different projects …show more content…
Sébastien Bazin, Chairman and CEO at AccorHotels, is aware of the responsibility of Accor as an economic plyer around the world and is completely committed to reduce the negative impacts produced by the company on the different local environments (Bazin, 2015). Global warming and climate change are the central issues that Accor tries to face with PLANET 21 project. In fact, global warming is not just creating the greenhouse effect, but also environmental degradation, flora and fauna extinctions, air and water pollution. Besides, even scarier is that the responsibility for the global warming lies on the activity of humans, who most of the times harm the ecosystem by wasting energy, using polluted materials and wasting water and other un-renewable …show more content…
Those areas are respectively: health, nature, carbon, innovation, local, employment and dialogue. Coming to the first pillar, Accor wants to build up a comfortable and eco-friendly environment, by using eco-labelled products for construction of new facilities and cleaning procedures. Moreover, they are engaged in fighting against HIV and AIDS, educating over 26000 employees on this topic. Moving on to the second pillar, the nature, Accor states the wish to preserve the nature by reducing the waste and use of water, by promoting recycling and by protecting biodiversity. This very last point, assured thanks to the collaboration of the guests, which can decide to reuse the bath towels during the stay at the hotel, and allowing so, the hotel to save money on laundry bills and invest them to plant trees. Over four million trees were planted by the end of
The consumers have the ability to increase the environmental sustainability. When National Geographic researches about this issue, it got the statistic from many consumers around 18 countries (para.4.5). So it found a few of American consumers able to live sustainably, and they feel not so much guilt. In the contrary, the consumers of Chains and India promote to live sustainably, and they feel more guilt (para.6). However, the people cannot live sustainably without awareness about the sustainability and
Deforestation is still an unbeleafable issue even to this day. With our trees being cut down to make supplies and furniture, we struggle with keeping our ratio of trees being destroyed and trees being planted equal. It seems like that was also the case in the past. There was a significant amount of trees being cut down in 1920, the land looking much more barren than it did in 1650 (Document A, map). These trees, some of them taking more than three thousand years to rise tall, are being cut down.
According to the report from PNAS, about 58 million big trees are under threat of dying (Woollaston). Some homeowners cultivate
Tourism is also having a major impact on the environment. Waste and sewage from resorts, hotels, and restaurants, especially in heavily visited coastal areas, could find their
1 What is Outrigger Hotels and Resorts’ strategic position? What are the firm’s Critical Success Factors (CSF)? Outrigger Hotels and Resorts are currently using geographical and product diversification strategy. The firm expend their firm around Pacific Ocean and diversify its product portfolio by adding condominiums resorts and OHANA hotels.
There are different strategies that must be considered by the organisations operating in hospitality industry. The contributions made by the firm donate towards the performance and achievement of the company. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the strategies of the hotel, which serves as the basis of success. This paper is divided into five different tasks each of which is focusing on various aspects of the hotels performance. The organisation that is selected in order to answer the tasks is InterContinental Hotel Group.
CASE JOURNAL-ROSEWOOD HOTEL& RESORTS Rosewood’s management is on the right track to increasing brand awareness among its customers by pursuing the corporate branding strategy. Implementation of the corporate branding strategy not only increases the number of repeat visitors to the hotels, but also increases the gross profits made by the company by $2,599,000. Corporate branding has a positive impact on the customer lifetime value as well. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is a privately owned hotel management company that is known for its unique properties like The Carlyle and the Mansion on Turtle Creek that differentiates the company from other luxury hotel competitors.
To confront to this problem, Unilever would encourage workers to work longer or recruit migrant workers (Maestas and Zissimopoulos, 2010). However, with the fact that people are more concern about healthy and safe products, Unilever has successfully maintained high social and environmental standards by designing and producing that meet consumers’s needs. They have many effective activities including promoting sustainable development and utilisation of renewable resources. Therefore, it can not be denied Unilever has built its image as an environment friendly and socially responsible
Climate Change is one of the most unsettling problems mankind faces today. It leaves an impact on every single living thing, on every continent, no matter the privilege. Long term investment must be used to change the world. People must do more than just change out their light bulbs for eco-friendly ones, or drive fuel efficient cars. A choice as simple as changing our diets could reduce a human’s carbon footprint by fifty percent.
The Earth is a beautiful place, there is no doubt about that. Now the future is questionable due to all the manufacturing and oil drilling we’ve done. However, not only those actions are to blame, we have all played our part. Humans have created a new world, the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is defined as the idea that we have entered a new epoch in Earth’s geological history.
In his video Ea says that the trees will continue to be mowed down simply to produce paper and money. Moreover, trees possess the ability to provide most living creature with the air they need to survive. In addition, they also provide the key to cures and aid in the fight against pollution, but they can’t do that when they are dead. Ea states that the Native Americans took care of the Earth in behalf of their grandchildren. Not to mention after Columbus came to America this positive mindset changed Europeans infected the natives and took their land.
In the recent years more and more companies in the retail and food industry are concerned about the environmental consequences of their action and also the social ethics for the people involved in the production process. This is a shift from the philanthropic actions companies used to take in 1970’s and by following basic international standards to a ‘business case’ perspective of CSR (Customer Social Responsibility). According to the World Business Council for Sustainability Develpoment ( WBCSD) CSR is: ‘’ the commitment of business to contribute to sustainable economic development, working with employees, theirfamilies, the local community and society at large to improve their quality of life’’ (World Bank, 2002)
Every industry to include the hospitality industry is impacted by external factors which directly influence organizational behavior and decision making. There are numerous factors to be considered, but political, economic, and social are three of the most influential. These outside factors sway managerial operational decisions daily regarding personnel, spending, policy, and short-term and long-term strategic planning concerning both core and exterior operations. As within every industry, the hospitality industry has unmanageable elements that affect management or ownership of hospitality establishments (Lewis 2017). Understanding these factors is important because it provides an opportunity for contingency planning (Lewis, 2017).
Nowadays hospitality and tourism industry is one of the main industry in this world. A lot of people need a place to escape from their routines or even just to stay overnight as they having a business trip to other places. We call these people as customer or guest. Human mobility from one place to another , both in the country and from and abroad is very high. Human mobility is not only related to business activities but also recretional activities.