Mass tourism and water efficiency in the hotel industry: A case study
Mass tourism, which has traditionally been associated with an unsustainable use of natural resources and intensive land use, is frequently identified as a major environmental stressor in coastal regions. Nonetheless, mass tourism resorts typically have a compact and vertical urban configuration and...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10256/13410 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10256/13410 |
| Access Level: | acceso embargado |
| Palabra clave: | Turisme -- Catalunya -- Costa Brava Tourism -- Catalonia -- Costa Brava Aigua -- Consum -- Catalunya -- Costa Brava Water consumption -- Catalonia -- Costa Brava Turisme sostenible -- Catalunya -- Costa Brava Sustainable tourism -- Catalonia -- Costa Brava |
| Sumario: | Mass tourism, which has traditionally been associated with an unsustainable use of natural resources and intensive land use, is frequently identified as a major environmental stressor in coastal regions. Nonetheless, mass tourism resorts typically have a compact and vertical urban configuration and have been shown to make more efficient use of water resources than other low-density tourist destinations. This article investigates how the main variables identified by the literature as determinants of water consumption by hotels influences water efficiency in hotels in Lloret de Mar, a well-known mass tourism destination on the Costa Brava in Spain. The results of a generalized linear mixed model show that large, high-rise hotels that attract thousands of tourists annually also benefit from economies of scale in terms of water efficiency |
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