Ecologically sustainable actions in Dream Hostel
Kwiecien, Agata (2016)
Kwiecien, Agata
Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016113018315
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016113018315
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Tourism is an evergrowing field of business, with one out of eleven employed people working for this particular industry branch. Sustainable tourism as a concept became a key focus and reponse to fast growth of tourism and lack of proper management of its impacts on the surrounding environments. Sustainable tourism focuses of three major tourism impact areas: social, environmental and economical.
Hotels and hostels alter their business behaviours in order for their establishments to become more sustainable through actions such as water usage reduction, proper waste management, energy efficient options of energy usage and so on. Many businesses choose to use their own environmental policies, while some decide to use external, third-party certified ecolabels. These ecolabels consist of multiple criteria which need to be in accordance with what the business’ actions are.
In this study, in order to find out what environmentally sustainable actions are performed in the place of interest, Green Key ecolabel criteria for hotels and hostels applicable between 1st of July 2016 and 31st of December 2020 are used, not in their entirety. The research focuses on finding out the level of environmentally sustainable actions carried out in a privately owned Dream Hostel, located in Tampere, Finland.
This thesis research was commissioned by the establishment as a way of measurement the level of Dream Hostel’s environmental sustainability at the moment. It is not the goal of Dream Hostel to apply for Green Key, or any other, ecolabel, and chosen criteria are used solely as a point of reference and comparison for their current actions. The results of this research will be used by the establishment as guidelines for their future improvements, and proof of evaluation of their actions at present time.
Hotels and hostels alter their business behaviours in order for their establishments to become more sustainable through actions such as water usage reduction, proper waste management, energy efficient options of energy usage and so on. Many businesses choose to use their own environmental policies, while some decide to use external, third-party certified ecolabels. These ecolabels consist of multiple criteria which need to be in accordance with what the business’ actions are.
In this study, in order to find out what environmentally sustainable actions are performed in the place of interest, Green Key ecolabel criteria for hotels and hostels applicable between 1st of July 2016 and 31st of December 2020 are used, not in their entirety. The research focuses on finding out the level of environmentally sustainable actions carried out in a privately owned Dream Hostel, located in Tampere, Finland.
This thesis research was commissioned by the establishment as a way of measurement the level of Dream Hostel’s environmental sustainability at the moment. It is not the goal of Dream Hostel to apply for Green Key, or any other, ecolabel, and chosen criteria are used solely as a point of reference and comparison for their current actions. The results of this research will be used by the establishment as guidelines for their future improvements, and proof of evaluation of their actions at present time.