The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach

This paper examines small hotels that have some type of environmental certification. A survey of 210 small (less than 50 employees) Catalonian hotels was conducted to investigate whether there are significant differences in the results of the implementation practices between hotels that adopt these...

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Autores: Bagur-Femenías, Llorenç, Celma, Dolors, Patau Brunet, Josep
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2016
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositório:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Sustainability
Environmental practices
Hotels
Environmental certification
SME
Tourism
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spelling The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical ApproachBagur-Femenías, LlorençCelma, DolorsPatau Brunet, JosepSustainabilityEnvironmental practicesHotelsEnvironmental certificationSMETourismThis paper examines small hotels that have some type of environmental certification. A survey of 210 small (less than 50 employees) Catalonian hotels was conducted to investigate whether there are significant differences in the results of the implementation practices between hotels that adopt these certifications due to environmental pressure (from the government, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders) and hotels that voluntarily commit to green policies. Significant differences were identified in the results on the hotels when structural equation modelling (SEM) was undertaken. This investigation suggests that hotels that voluntarily commit to green policies obtain better results than other hotels. The conclusion is that governments must not only regulate, but also promote awareness actions in small and medium-sized (SME) tourism companies to improve the environment. [...]info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionMDPI2016info:eu-repo/semantics/article14 p.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12367/2399reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésSustainability. 2016 Jul 21;8(7):695© 2016 by Bagur-Femenías L, Celma D, Patau Brunet J; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:20.500.12367/23992026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
title The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
spellingShingle The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
Bagur-Femenías, Llorenç
Sustainability
Environmental practices
Hotels
Environmental certification
SME
Tourism
title_short The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
title_full The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
title_fullStr The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
title_full_unstemmed The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
title_sort The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bagur-Femenías, Llorenç
Celma, Dolors
Patau Brunet, Josep
author Bagur-Femenías, Llorenç
author_facet Bagur-Femenías, Llorenç
Celma, Dolors
Patau Brunet, Josep
author_role author
author2 Celma, Dolors
Patau Brunet, Josep
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Sustainability
Environmental practices
Hotels
Environmental certification
SME
Tourism
topic Sustainability
Environmental practices
Hotels
Environmental certification
SME
Tourism
description This paper examines small hotels that have some type of environmental certification. A survey of 210 small (less than 50 employees) Catalonian hotels was conducted to investigate whether there are significant differences in the results of the implementation practices between hotels that adopt these certifications due to environmental pressure (from the government, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders) and hotels that voluntarily commit to green policies. Significant differences were identified in the results on the hotels when structural equation modelling (SEM) was undertaken. This investigation suggests that hotels that voluntarily commit to green policies obtain better results than other hotels. The conclusion is that governments must not only regulate, but also promote awareness actions in small and medium-sized (SME) tourism companies to improve the environment. [...]
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