Best practice environmental management and the tourism industry

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 261-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Pigram
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Tourism Industry

Practices and Attitudes to Environmental Management in the Hotel Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-79
Author(s):  
Evangelos Grigoroudis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Corporate Environmental Management ◽  
Tourism Enterprises

The dynamic presence and intensification of tourism has created several negative environmental impacts and have made it one of the industries with the widest range of environmental pressures, calling for a more sustainable course in the future. In this article, in order to respond to the increasing level of environmental concerns of tourists, as well as to the new economic environment, several initiatives as well as environmental management systems (EMSs) are developed for tourism enterprises. EMS applications offer several benefits to the committed organizations, however, the lack of resources and knowledge often poses difficulties in developing and sustaining international EMS. The tourism industry includes two main activities: housing and transportation. The present article concerns housing and its impact on the environment. It also addresses the factors that influence corporate environmental management by identifying the motives and benefits, as well as the difficulties in improving the environmental performance of hotels. The article focuses on Greece and more specifically on the Region of Crete. The article has been based on a questionnaire survey, while the results and conclusions have been based on statistical analysis of the collected information.

scholarly journals The Effects of Environmental Management and Debt Financing on Sustainable Financial Growth in the Tourism Industry

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402094853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Long Xu ◽  
Chao Sun ◽  
Yi Li ◽  
Nidi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Financial Growth ◽  
Policy Proposals

Environmental management and sustainable financial growth are currently hot topics in academic research. This article examines the relationships among environmental management, debt financing, and sustainable financial growth in the Chinese tourism industry. The results show that environmental management and debt financing have promoted sustainable financial growth, and the overall effect of debt financing on sustainable financial growth has been affected by environmental management. After employing different methods of controlling the endogeneity, these conclusions are still robust. We also examine the mediating effect and threshold effect on environmental management, debt financing, and sustainable financial growth, and the results reveal that debt financing can mediate the effect of environmental management on sustainable financial growth and that there is nonlinear impact of debt financing on sustainable financial growth in different thresholds of environmental management. The analysis results show that the presented policy proposals promote the development of tourism companies from the aspects of debt financing and environmental management.

Improving environmental performance through ISO 14001

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 540
Author(s):  
Max Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Life Cycle Thinking ◽  
Legal Compliance ◽  
Iso 14001 Standard

The International Standard for Environmental Management Systems, ISO 14001 (the Standard), has been around for nearly 20 years and 2015 saw its third revision. Various research papers in the early 2000s showed that adoption of—and certification to—the ISO 14001 standard did not have any significant bearing on organisations’ environmental performance, as measured in terms of the frequency of incidents and legal compliance. In this latest revision it is clear that concerns raised about the Standard have been taken on board, and it now provides for a more rigorous and effective environmental management system, which will ensure greater focus on the actual outcomes of the system, rather than the paperwork and procedures that are often the focus. New areas of focus include: environmental performance evaluation, leadership and commitment, life-cycle thinking, and addressing the needs of external stakeholders. Through experience gained over 20 years of working with the ISO 14001 standard in the oil and gas industry—including 10 years as a third-party certifier—the author discusses the benefits of adopting the revised ISO 14001 standard, and incorporates case study examples (from Australian oil and gas operators) of best practice as well as some of the pitfalls to avoid. In addition, the paper explores the potential for Australian oil and gas regulators to apply a ‘lighter touch’ to the regulation of ISO14001 certified operators.

Key Challenges in the Planning and Management of Tourism in Marine Environments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Professor John Swarbrooke
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Negative Impacts

Throughout much of this text to date I have suggested that the public sector needs to be doing more to plan and manage tourism to reduce its negative impacts on the marine environment. However, I have never said this would be easy and in the Preface, I outlined some of the complexities involved in the planning and management of tourism of the oceans, from the beaches and shoreline to the most remote areas of open sea. In this chapter we will explore some of these complexities and endeavour to look beyond them to see how we might try to develop a model of best practice for the future. Planning and management is obviously a wide field so I will be focusing upon three main areas of activity as follows: - The planning process for tourism including master planning of new resorts, zoning of land and sea for various uses and the system for evaluating and making decisions on proposed new developments. - The ways in which the operations of the tourism industry are managed by the public sector, including legislation and regulations and their enforcement as well as policies on infrastructure development and management. - Emergency planning and crisis management in the event of various kinds of natural disasters which is an important issue in relation to tourism.

The development and application of a decision-useful measure of environmental best practice for the mining industry

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Hutchings ◽  
Craig Deegan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe failure of environmental reporting to meet the needs of stakeholders is partly due to the gap, or inconsistency, between information disclosed in corporate reports and the underlying quality of environmental management. Within the context of the mining industry, this paper present a novel approach to close this gap. By measuring and reporting the comprehensiveness of environmental management – in a manner consistent with the qualitative characteristics applied within financial reporting – this paper contends that stakeholders can, as a result, better assess the environmental risk of mining operations and hold organisations more accountable for their environmental commitments.Design/methodology/approachUsing interviews and surveys, this paper draws on the knowledge of experienced environmental practitioners to measure the otherwise intangible quality of “environmental management”. The accounting metric developed is then used to quantify the comprehensiveness of environmental management of thirty Australian-based mine sites.FindingsThe findings suggest: (1) the accounting metric presented in this paper could better inform the decisions of both internal and external stakeholders; (2) significant variation in the comprehensiveness of environmental management exists within corporate entities and across the mining industry; (3) ISO 14001 is generally an indicator – but not a guarantee – of strong environmental management and (4) ISO 14001 self-declarations are largely symbolic.Originality/valueThe accounting metric presented in this paper could better inform user decisions, enhance corporate accountability and drive continuous improvement in environmental management. It could also provide a foundation for similar customised metrics in other industries and across other areas of sustainability.

scholarly journals The ecological state of Transcarpathia region and its impact on the tourism area in the region

2014 ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
S. Ulyhanets ◽  
L. Melnyk ◽  
V. Feshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Ecological State ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Technogenic Impact

The article highlights the ecological status of environmental components of Transcarpathia and their impact on the tourism industry in the region. In this article the effect of the economic activities of individual industrial enterprises and the environment are investigated, the main solutions to existing environmental problems in the region related to environmental management are deterenvironmentmined. Proposals as for improving the strategy in making ecology-oriented solutions to minimize anthropogenic-technogenic impact of industry on the Transcarpathian region environment are formulated.

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