Responsible Hospitality
Theory and Practice
Rebecca Hawkins, Paulina Bohdanowicz
ISBN: 978-1-906884-19-2
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Responsible Hospitality: theory and practice is the first book to bring together environmental theory and the responsible hospitality debate to define how far the industry has gone and what is left to achieve. It provides a genuine critique of the range of methods that have been developed by to address the environmental impacts of the sector (eg benchmarking, certification or carbon offsetting) and of the challenges that lie ahead for hospitality companies to really contribute towards the achievement of ‘sustainable development’.
This text will provide those working within the sector, students of hospitality and those providing to the sector with a comprehensive understanding of these issues. Written by two of the leading thinkers who have driven the sustainable tourism/responsible hospitality debate, it :
Dr Rebecca Hawkins is Research and Consultancy Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and is the Director of Centre for Environmental Studies in the Hospitality Industries. She has focused throughout her career on the development of strategies and policies for sustainable tourism. She has contributed to a number of major projects which include the development of a voluntary energy efficiency agreement (“Hospitable Climates”) between Government and the hospitality sector, the development of an on-line sustainability benchmarking tool for hotels (for the International Hotels Environment Initiative), a major review of tourism ecolabelling programmes (for the Worldwide Fund for Nature) and the UK Government consultation document on sustainable tourism (for the Department of Culture Media and Sport).
Dr Paulina Bohdanowicz is the European Sustainability Manager for Hilton Hotels. Her area of interest includes corporate social responsibility and environmental issues in the hotel, travel and tourism industry, with particular focus on energy aspects (consumption patterns, energy efficiency and conservation possibilities, as well as applicability of renewable energies). The influence that behaviour, of staff as well as guests, has on the energy consumption patterns in a hotel facility and possible methods of altering behaviour are part of her research area. She also performs investigations on how tourism can enhance the environmental awareness among the general public, as well as the tools that can be developed and used to that end.
Paperback: £29.99: €35.99: US$43.99
Ebook: £22.59
Echapters: £2.50
January 2011
- The first textbook to bring together environmental theory and the responsible hospitality debate to define how far the industry has gone and what is left to achieve;
- Up to date case studies from leading hotel brands globally demonstrating what can be achieved and what can go wrong;
- Practical focus on the tools that are available to support corporate responsibility within this sector and the ways in which they can deliver greatest benefits.
Responsible Hospitality: theory and practice is the first book to bring together environmental theory and the responsible hospitality debate to define how far the industry has gone and what is left to achieve. It provides a genuine critique of the range of methods that have been developed by to address the environmental impacts of the sector (eg benchmarking, certification or carbon offsetting) and of the challenges that lie ahead for hospitality companies to really contribute towards the achievement of ‘sustainable development’.
This text will provide those working within the sector, students of hospitality and those providing to the sector with a comprehensive understanding of these issues. Written by two of the leading thinkers who have driven the sustainable tourism/responsible hospitality debate, it :
- Identifies the scale of the challenge that is faced by human kind; identifies the limitations of “business-as-usual models” to achieve these changes and describe the range of debate amongst leading sustainable development thinkers globally about the validity of the solutions proposed;
- Identifies the scale of the challenge that lies ahead for those hospitality businesses that are genuinely seeking to operate according to responsible business principles and describe the range of issues that require redress;
- Describes what the leading hospitality businesses are currently doing to address the emerging environmental and social agenda;
- Assesses the effectiveness of the strategies addressed in the light of the challenges and focus on the appropriateness of the tools that are available to reduce impacts in the light of the scale of the challenge;
- Defines possible futures for hospitality businesses.
About the authors
Dr Rebecca Hawkins is Research and Consultancy Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and is the Director of Centre for Environmental Studies in the Hospitality Industries. She has focused throughout her career on the development of strategies and policies for sustainable tourism. She has contributed to a number of major projects which include the development of a voluntary energy efficiency agreement (“Hospitable Climates”) between Government and the hospitality sector, the development of an on-line sustainability benchmarking tool for hotels (for the International Hotels Environment Initiative), a major review of tourism ecolabelling programmes (for the Worldwide Fund for Nature) and the UK Government consultation document on sustainable tourism (for the Department of Culture Media and Sport).
Dr Paulina Bohdanowicz is the European Sustainability Manager for Hilton Hotels. Her area of interest includes corporate social responsibility and environmental issues in the hotel, travel and tourism industry, with particular focus on energy aspects (consumption patterns, energy efficiency and conservation possibilities, as well as applicability of renewable energies). The influence that behaviour, of staff as well as guests, has on the energy consumption patterns in a hotel facility and possible methods of altering behaviour are part of her research area. She also performs investigations on how tourism can enhance the environmental awareness among the general public, as well as the tools that can be developed and used to that end.
Provisional Prices
Paperback: £29.99: €35.99: US$43.99
Ebook: £22.59
Echapters: £2.50
Provisional Publication Date
January 2011
