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Tourism, the so-called “an industry without chimney”, is usually treated as a critical emerging industry in the world. It plays a very significant role to enhance the national economy and, moreover, gives a strong and obvious boost to increase employment opportunities and local culture interaction. However, the tourism activities also made a huge impact on our environment, such as an increasing amount of waste and energy consumption. Due to the corporate relocation and gap between urban and rural development over the years, the economic and social problems in Taiwan such as structural unemployment and gap between rich and poor had been growing worse. Therefore, it is definitely worthy of a ripe deliberation to think how to look after the economic, social and cultural issues with the tourism activities as a whole, give a full-scale consideration to the environmental issues in a more proactive way and be capable of moving towards the sustainable development.
This paper aims to construct the indicator items for a Green Hotel from the hotel managers’ perspectives, which are applicable to the hospitality industry in Taiwan. First of all, the important connection between tourism activities and sustainable development is shown clearly in this paper. Secondly, this paper points out the fact that the hospitality industry holds a significant influential position among the tourism activities and then presents the concept of green hotel. Furthermore, the purpose of promoting Green Hotel and the criteria implementation is explained in detail accordingly. In conclusion, by the expert interview method with hotel managers in Taiwan, this paper finds out the contents of the indicators for green hotel certification and the way to keep on working it out.
A great deal of information such as professional papers, journals, government publications and relevant regulations in the related field of study at home and abroad has been considerably collected for study and analysis. In the next place, by referring to the items of global sustainable development, the interview questions are designed and screened to three major categories including socio-economic, culture and environment facets. After elaborating the subjects and questions, this paper proceeds with the expert interviews and learns more about the hotel managers’ comments on constructing the indicator items for Green Hotel and suggestions about the executable implementation in the future.
This paper could be a fair contribution to the reference basis for green hotel certification by the advancement of strategic planning for sustainable development for our future tourism industry.
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