The significance of green hotels

Creating a green hotel is an important way to achieve one's own sustainable development

The benefits of creating a green hotel for one's own development are: 1. Saving costs? Environmental issues are directly connected to hotel operating costs . Proper management can reduce hotel costs. 2. Adapt to social requirements? With the improvement of national environmental protection legislation and the increase of public attention. Hotels must take steps to accommodate this form of requirement. 3. Win competitive advantage because green hotels advocate the concepts of safety, environmental protection and health. It is welcomed by more and more customers. therefore. be in an advantageous position in future competition.

Creating green hotels is an important way to achieve sustainable development of the tourism industry

The essence of sustainable development of the tourism industry is to require tourism to become integrated with nature, society, culture and the human living environment. A whole. To coordinate and balance the relationship between them to achieve the unity of economic development goals and social development goals. As a pillar industry of the tourism industry, the hotel industry has an unshirkable responsibility for realizing the sustainable development of the tourism industry. It can be said that creating green hotels is a micro way to achieve sustainable development of tourism industry.

3. Creating a green hotel is conducive to energy conservation

The resources consumed by hotels mainly include water, electricity, fuel, etc. A large hotel with a usable area of ??80,000-100,000 square meters. The annual energy consumption is approximately equivalent to 13,000-18,000 tons of standard coal. There are currently nearly 330,000 hotel companies in the country, of which the energy cost of hotels accounts for approximately 13.4% of the total cost. As far as the current situation is concerned, enterprises have greater room for savings in the use of water, electricity, gas and consumables. If effective energy-saving measures are taken, energy costs can be reduced from about 20-30% to about 8% of the total cost of the hotel. According to expert calculations, if 10,000 green hotels are built across the country, 30.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity will be saved, which is equivalent to the current power generation of the Three Gorges Hydropower Project in one month, and equivalent to the electricity consumption of 1.67 million urban households for one year. Save 200 million tons of water, equivalent to the amount of water in 20 West Lakes, or the annual water consumption of 1.85 million urban households.

IV. Creating green hotels is conducive to environmental protection

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world. It promotes the rapid development of the global economy and the continuous transformation of the hotel industry. However, many hotel managers ignore the hotel's "destructive phenomenon" for immediate benefits, that is, indifference to the environment. Hotels are high-consumption places that generate a large amount of garbage and emit a large amount of pollutants during the consumption process. Social progress requires coordinated development of society, environment and economy. Natural resources are the basis for life's survival and the most primitive source of material for economic activities. Any kind of natural resources is inseparable from the environmental support system. Environmental quality is the prerequisite for the economic value of natural resources to be exerted. The rational use of natural resources is the basis for sustainable development. Therefore, hotels have an unshirkable responsibility for the protection of resources and the environment. Creating green hotels is a need for social progress. In the process of building a green hotel, scientific methods are adopted for green management of the hotel. This can reduce energy consumption, pollution and waste to a minimum, thus achieving the purpose of protecting resources and the environment.

Five. Creating a green hotel is conducive to improving efficiency

The creation of "green hotels" is for the purpose of economic benefits, and economic benefits are generated from the difference between income and investment. The creation of "green hotels" can not only increase revenue. It can also reduce consumption, thereby achieving the purpose of improving efficiency. "Green hotel" itself is a sign that can attract more and more customers to come and spend money. In the new era, people are paying more and more attention to environmental awareness. "Green hotels" can easily attract these socially responsible consumers to visit and form a positive interaction mechanism. At the same time, we will strengthen awareness of conservation and promote new energy-saving technologies. This includes implementing green lighting, creating green guest rooms, using environmentally friendly equipment and supplies, reducing disposable items, implementing garbage classification, and harmless disposal of organic waste. This can greatly reduce the energy consumption of the hotel industry.

6. Creating green hotels will help win the market

In the international market, green consumption has gradually become the mainstream, and the environmental awareness of Chinese consumers is also increasing. In this context, the demand for green consumption has increased dramatically. Green consumption has been integrated into people's lives everywhere, profoundly affecting people's values ????and consumption behavior. In countries with strong environmental awareness, whether a hotel meets green standards has become an important factor in people's choices. Therefore, green hotels can attract more green consumers and expand market share.