SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN HOTELS - A CSR INITIATIVE
CSR, hospitality, stakeholders,QoL
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an effective company tool used by hotels to take up the social and environmental issues seriously in their daily operations. The concept of CSR is based on hotel business moral culture for society and environment for its sustenance and as well keeping the interest of its stakeholders. Through this line of action it can achieve three fold objective of increase profit, QoL of people, and clean planet. The hotel industry has a creates huge chunks of employment and at the same time consume lot of natural resources like food, water, and energy, hence a huge burden on environment having degrading effect on environment and society. Hospitality industry is a one such industry which gives rise to environmental pollution by the big construction and operating hotel accommodation units. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the major areas related to the principles of corporate social responsibility and to summarise the useful guidelines of CSR adopted by the hotel industry. These are to reduce wastage of food in food outlets, water and energy conservation in hotels premises and fuel efficiency methods in airlines. The hotel industry have also incorporated social issues and international hotel chains have embraced CSR policies of developing underprivileged community , encouraging diversity amongst its workforce, and improved employment culture, the pioneer leaders in this field are Hyatt Hotels, Hilton, Marriott International , have been included in lists in Fortune’s Best Companies with the best employment practices and culture, a dream of every employee to work in such environment.
"SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN HOTELS - A CSR INITIATIVE", IJSDR - International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (www.IJSDR.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.4, Issue 10, page no.12 - 16, October-2019, Available :https://ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR1910003.pdf
Volume 4
Issue 10,
October-2019
Pages : 12 - 16
Paper Reg. ID: IJSDR_191030
Published Paper Id: IJSDR1910003
Downloads: 000347038
Research Area: Management
Country: Bareilly,243006, Uttar pradesh, India
ISSN: 2455-2631 | IMPACT FACTOR: 9.15 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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