Green Hotel: Eco-Friendly Lodges For Sustainable Tourism

Introduction to Green Hotel

Green hotel are eco-friendly lodges that are designed for developing the tourism factor. The region is located in the coastal region and it located in the rural community. The activities like animal husbandry is the primary means of occupation in this region. The report consists of an effective marketing strategy of natural and cultural tourism. In order to describe this the report explains the aspects like the environment management system, this is divided into various phases. The first phase is the legal aspects and the competitive aspects. The second phase discusses the sustainable goals that includes the socio-cultural as well as economic performance. The third phase consists of the assessment of the data. This is done by preparing a SWOT analysis of the eco lodge. The fourth phase includes the analysis and training of the employees. The employees are given training on the sustainability factor. The fifth phase includes the management system and the documentation system. The sixth phase include the standard criteria that is the social as well as the economic criteria. This involves the cultural heritage and the ways in which the company will contribute to the development of the environment. A well-equipped marketing strategy has been included towards the end of the report. The report ends with a conclusion that briefly consists of the essential findings of the report.

The report prepares an environmental management system that is supposed to be based on the Green Globe Certification. This can be divided into different phases.

This include the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The eco lodge should follow the matters related to the world heritage properties, national heritage places. They must consider of international importance. Under this act the hotel must protect the migratory species under ecological communities. The hotel is located near the coastal area, this is the reason they should follow this. The other act is the environmental protection act 1993. This act is responsible for improving the environmental conditions in South Australia. According to this act the hotel should make efforts to improve the land and the environment (Xu and Gursoy 2015).

The concept of eco lodge is a common concept. There are many other eco hotels that have the similar concept. The competitive aspects include:

The other eco hotels have lower costs compared to the Green hotel. The sustainability hospitality requires hotels to reduce their consumption of resources like energy and water. This would tend the hotel to lower their cost. After installing an energy management system the competitors of Green hotel was able to reduce much cost (Xu and Gursoy 2015).

Environmental Management System and Legal Aspects

The Green hotel will be able to make more profit than their competitors once they will be able to locate themselves in the natural rural community. The natural resources of the area will serve as a supporting factor. The Green hotel have acquired the same factor. The location of Green hotel is in the rural community that has natural resources around it. It is alone in this region and this is the reason the Green hotel is able to create a sustainable experience for their guests. By positioning themselves as the green alternative the hotel is able to advantage of this factor for the future (Cavagnaro, Düweke and Melissen 2018).

Green hotel has adapted few policies that might apply the corporate social responsibility in their daily business. It has been seen that the business with the environmental, social and governance policies outperformed that hotels that did not had the same. This is the reason the competitors of the Green hotel can suffer from a loss (Liu, Nie and Li 2016).

Green hotel took the efforts to provide employment to the local people in their hotels. This made the hotel popular than the other hotels in that particular area.

The hotel tries to maintain the quality of food and service that will be offered to the customers. This will attract more customers and the hotel will be able to make a good reputation in the market.

The goal of the Green hotel is to give a memorable experience to the customers in natural areas and in place of the unique ecological or cultural interest. The green hotel aims at making profit by conserving the tress and the environment which will enable the customers to remain healthy and fresh during their stay in the hotel. It will have no negative impact. This can be done through the planning of the environmental management strategy like using the solar panels in order to capture the rays of the sun and make use of the sun for the purpose of electricity.

 The Green hotel concentrates on eco-tourism that aims to create necessary funds to promote permanent protection of ecological and socio-cultural resources. The hotel tries to provide employment to the local people in that particular area. The hotel tries to deal the poor economic condition of a particular region.

 Eco-tourism incorporates the environmental as well as the cultural education (Cavicchi 2014). By using the natural resources the hotel tries to create a social awareness among the people.

Strength	the strength of the Green hotel is the idea and the concept it has in itself. It has designed the idea of building the eco-friendly hotels that will support the conservation of the natural environment. The concept is innovative as the guest looks forward to some place that will be away from the hustle of the city life amidst the nature. With this the hotel will be able to lend protection to the environment (Sloan,  Legrand and Simons-Kaufmann 2014).
Weakness	the hotel fails to adapt few programs related to the conservation of nature. The hotel fails to adapt certain natural energy consumption programs
Opportunity	the hotel has huge opportunity to explore the market. The hotel aims at developing the environment free hotels which is a noble concept and it develops the social, political as well as the economic factors.
Threat	there are many other hotels that have the same concept. This can act as the biggest threat for Green hotel. In other words it can be stated that the competitors are the biggest threat.

Competitive Aspects of Green Hotel

The employees of the hotel should be offered training. The training of the employees makes them to be aware of the business goals that will help in the increase of the revenue of the organization. This is the reason the organization should plan a standard training program for their employees. The training program might include:

• The employees must be trained to help everyone to be more united and they should be made to respect the team work.
• The training program includes making the employees of the objectives and the goals of the organization so that they can fulfil those goals.
• The training program includes the improvement of the strategy to improve the professional knowledge and skills that would enable the employees to meet the requirements of their clients.
• The training program would include the program of strengthening the competitive advantage of the employees.
• The professional ability of the employees can be improved only by giving trainings to the employees.
• The trainings are designed to motivate the employees to improve the business performance of the employees.
• They should be taught the safety skills that is important in the hospitality sector in order to avoid the accidents.
• The body language and the gesture of the employees should be developed that is an essential part in the hospitality sector.
• The employees should be given the sales and marketing training so that the employees can contribute in the development of the sales of the hotels.
• They should be given artistry front desk training. The front desk team members will embark on a four-hour journey towards the mastery of their positions. The participants of the training will have to learn lessons on the fundamentals of hospitality, communication and the reason to adopt the environmental products (Prud’homme and Raymond 2016).

The satisfaction of the customers is one of the major aspect that should be considered by the hotels. The facilities that are given to the customers can be checked or controlled by taking feedbacks from the customers. The customers visits any hotels to have a memorable experience. It is the responsibility of the hotels to make the stay of the guests comfortable. The service can be improved once the area where the hotel is lacking is known and this is possible only the feedbacks from the customers are collected. This include the 4 aspects:

• Surveys: the feedback from the customers can be collected by conducting surveys where questionnaires can be circulated where the customers can rate the service with the help of likert scale. This is an easy process to collect the data and analyse the same.
• Feedback boxes: In this the customers can submit their feedback by dropping their feedback in the feedback boxes. It can happen many times that the hotel lacks something that the customers might want in such case the customers can drop this in the feedback boxes.
• Asking directly: this includes asking the customers directly about the service. The associates directly goes to the customers and asks to them about their service and what are the things that could be included to make the service better.
• User activity: it would enable the customers to highlight the areas which is liked by them the most and the areas which is disliked by them the most (Bunakov et al. 2015). 

Community development: this include the three basic initiatives for the social and infrastructure community development including education and health that the hotel should take:

• The hotel is located near the rural community. The hotel can donate one fourth of the profit towards the development of the education system in schools that are located in that area.
• The hotel can donate not only to the schools but also to the health organizations in order to improve the health conditions of the people in that area.
• The hotel can impart the education to the local people of the area regarding the environmental awareness and benefits.

Local employment: this include the three initiatives taken by the hotel in order to employ the local residents.

• The hotel can give training to the local resident who has taken formal education in the field of management and leadership and the hotel can hire him for the managerial jobs.
• The local residents who are unable to get jobs in order to feed their families should be given jobs by the hotel.
• The hotel can hire the female residents of the region for the job of cook in which the females are good at (Fermani, Crespi and Stara 2016).

Fair trade: this include ways in which the eco lodge will use goods and services that produced locally or with the fair-trade principle:

• The lodge creates opportunities for the economically and socially marginalized producers. They try to eliminate poverty in the particular area where it is located that heads towards the sustainable development.
• The lodge develops transparent and accountable relationships with the customers as well as the employees.
• The lodge develops the independence of the producers. The members maintain the long-term relationships based on solidarity, trust, mutual respect in order to improve the skills of the producers.
• The lodge makes a prompt and fair payment to their employees. This helps the lodge to make a sustainable growth.
• The lodge support safe and empowering working conditions. They does not force their labours to work for them. They does not discriminate the labours on the grounds of gender, race, caste and religion (Jones, Hillier and Comfort 2016).

• the eco lodge will develop the local tourist agencies to develop their business as they might attract many guest in that region.
• The eco lodge can provide the opportunity of the local shop keepers to sell their products to their guests.
• The eco lodge can provide the opportunity to the local food makers to sell their food in the beach as it is located near a coastal area (Moskwa, Higgins-Desbiolles and Gifford 2015).

• The policy of the protection of the child that is adopted by the eco lodge is UNICEF Australia that is committed to respect and protect the rights of the children. While following this the hotel encourages the guest to but the products that is made by the children.
• The other policy that is adopted by the eco lodge is the DFAT Child Protection policy that prevents the abuse and exploitation of the child (Bruns-Smith et al. 2015).

• The company can hire the women for the post of cook and provide employment to them.
• The company can give job opportunities to the local inferior people who leads a life of poverty.
• The company can buy the vegetables and meat for preparing foods in the hotels from the local vendors who earn their livelihood by selling these (Sigala 2014).

• The company uses fresh water and offer the same to the guests. It practices certain water conservation programs that is helpful for the entire community of that region.
• The hotel practices the process of recycling of the waste and it prohibits the use of plastic.
• The hotel have solar panels on the roof in order to conserve the solar energy and deliver light in the entire region after sunset (Göbel et al. 2017).

• The hotel arranges for bon-fire that the guests can enjoy.
• The hotel arranges for special parties and family gatherings.
• The hotel makes effort to organize some fair where the hand made products of the people of the local area can be sold out which can be a source of enjoyment.
• The hotel arranges for special sea food festival (Wang 2014).

• The hotel allows the local people to put an exhibition of their hand made products that might attract the tourists.
• The hotel allows the local residents to put food stalls in front of the hotel so that the guests can buy those.
• The hotel encourages the local people to arrange the cultural programs inside the hotel that serves as an entertainment for them (Gao, Mattila and Lee 2016).

• This might include the beauty and sustainable design.
• Emotionally durable design
• Sustainable architecture
• Sustainable garden design
• Sustainable water and energy conservative design (Pere and del Bosque 2014).

• The company can buy the nuwave precision induction cooktop which is environmentally friendly.
• The company can use rechargeable batteries.
• The company can use environment friendly house cleaners.
• The company can use solar lawn Mower (Cook, Hsu and Marqua 2014).

• The hotel must dispose the products in the proper dumping grounds.
• The hotel must use the products that can be reused and recycled.
• The hotel must prohibit the use of plastic.
• The hotel must use the environmentally friendly and natural products for cleaning (Verma and Chandra 2016).

• Residential use of energy
• The commercial use of energy
• The hotel can use the battery cars to give the facility of transportation to their guests.
• The hotel can use the solar energy (Zaitseva, Goncharova and Androsenk 2016).

• The hotel can practice rain water harvesting in the region.
• The hotel can preserve the saline water of the ocean to produce salt.
• The hotel can preserve the fresh water.
• The hotel can make use of the water energy for electricity.

• The waste water can be used by capturing and using warm up water.
• It can used from the bath tub.

• Using reusable bag.
• Buying in bulk helps in reducing the waste.
• Creating a compost bin.
• Reusing the products.
• Saving paper.
• Buying second-hand.

• The company can have garden that will conserve the trees.
• The company cultivate medicinal plants.
• The hotel can have animal farm inside the premises.
• The company can take measure to implant different kinds of flowers (Jackels et al. 2017).

• The tourists must have a standard life style.
• The tourists must be educated enough to abide by the norms of the hotel.
• The tourists must be able be economically sound so that they can pay the rent of the hotel.
• The tourists must come from a good social background (Michael, Raymond and David 2017).

The eco lodge can check the identity proof all the visitors before giving them a room and they can receive an advance payment from their guests before their stay.

• The hotel can have a separate team who will communicate the necessary things to the visitors.
• The hotel can mention about their norms and facilities on their official website itself.
• The hotel can keep the copy of the same in every room and in the restaurant section (La Rosa et al. 2018).

• Promotion in social networking sites
• Promotion in banners and newspapers (Gratz et al. 2014).

Conclusion:

The idea of tourism can act as a good opportunity in that particular area. Apart from this the other factor that should be considered is the Green Globe certification. Therefore the report include the complete set of indicators that is necessary for the criteria of sustainability that is outlined by the organization in the report. The report analyses the scenario where the investors proposed an investment on building the Eco Lodge that is the Green hotel in a remote natural area.

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