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Author : Christelle Cortese & Mondher Sahli
School/Work Place : Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland & Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Contact : christelle.Cortese@ehl.ch
Year : 2015

Firms are nowadays facing growing pressure from governments and environmental institutions to reduce their ecological footprint. While a growing number of empirical studies have examined the impact of green management policies on firms’ financial performances in the manufacturing industry, little has been discussed in the literature about service activities, such as the accommodation sector. The purpose of this research project is to fill this gap by examining the relationship between environmental practices and firm performance in the hotel sector in Dubai.  With its current status as the “gateway between the east and the west” thanks to its positioning as a regional hub for trade, travel and transport and its recent award to host the World Universal Exposition in 2020, the city of Dubai fits perfectly the purpose of this study. In 2013, the city hosted more than 2.2 million international tourists (Dubai Statistics Centre, 2013) for a total land area of approximately 3’885 km2. In order to comply with the increasing demand, many international hotel chains are now located in this city. Hotel groups, such as Accor, Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels Group and Starwood Hotels & Resorts have many properties in this city. Furthermore, due to the rapid growth of the tourism industry in the UAE, domestic hotel groups are beginning to enter the market and gain recognition. The most known brands are Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts, Rotana Hotel Management Corporation and EMAAR Hospitality group.  


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
94 Think Tank XVIII Communication of Sustainability Efforts in the Hospita... file 3838 Jan 07, 2019

Keywords: green marketing, sustainability engagement, small / owner-managed hotels

Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe 

Year: 2018 

93 Think Tank XIX Sustainability cues for the post-booking phase of a to... file 3828 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: sustainable tourist experience, cueing, cognitive dissonance, availability heuristic, representativeness heuristic Page: 199-207 Sustainability cues for the post-booking phase of a tourist experience.pdf Normal 0 false false false...

Author: Kristof Tomej 

Year: 2019 

92 Think Tank XVIII The role of research-based evidence in destination mar... file 3804 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: marketing, research-based evidence, partnership, rural tourism, city tourism, sustainability

Author: Yukari Higuchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka & Hiroaki Hoshi 

Year: 2018 

91 Think Tank IX Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t... file 3768 Oct 13, 2013

For many decades authors (see Sontag, 1976, Baederholt, 2006, Chalfern, 1979, Crang, 1997) have recognised the fundamental role of photography within tourism. Many such as Urry (1999, 2002), Crouch (2000, 2002) and Crouch & Lubbren (200...

Author: Caroline Scarles 

Year: 2009 

90 Think Tank XVII Transit Tours for Airport Passengers – Issues and Chal... file 3765 Aug 17, 2017

Since the advent of liberalisation of the aviation industry in the late 1970s, many countries have adopted the liberal policy in air transport and entered bilateral air service agreements, often referred to as “open skies agreements” (OSAs),...

Author: Priscilla Chau Min Poon 

Year: 2017 

89 Think Tank XIX Multi-stakeholder collaboration for transformative tou... file 3703 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: sustainable tourism education, transformative education, collaborative learning, multi-stakeholder collaboration Page: 119-124 Multi-stakeholder collaboration for transformative tourism education.pdf

Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Ulrich Gunter and Gordon Sillence 

Year: 2019 

88 Think Tank XIX The time use rebound effect and its impact on tourist ... file 3696 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: rebound effect, time use, consumer behaviour, energy consumption, sustainability Page: 75-78 The time use rebound effect and its impact on tourist consumption in the context of sustainable tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN...

Author: Soheon Kim 

Year: 2019 

87 Think Tank IX Do Chinese tourists find their in-group members more t... file 3655 Oct 13, 2013

Furthermore, social identity theory suggests that people are attracted to others who are familiar to themselves because their similarity reinforces their self-image (Tajfel, 1982), and that people from collectivist culture tend to favour in-...

Author: Rui Jin Hoare, Ken Butcher & Danny O'Brien 

Year: 2009 

86 Think Tank VIII Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of... file 3651 Oct 13, 2013

Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities in these states have complained that these att...

Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2008 

85 Think Tank XIX Towards an Alternative Ecotourism Model for the Medite... file 3607 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: Protected Areas, ecotourism, sustainable tourism, Mediterranean, Ecological Footprint Page: 194-198 Towards an Alternative Ecotourism Model for the Mediterranean Region.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style D...

Author: Jeremy Sampson, Natalie Beckett and Carla Danelutti 

Year: 2019 

84 Think Tank XVI Navigating Evolving Global Trends in Financial Crime: ... file 3584 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Verity Anne Greenwood 

Year: 2016 

83 Think Tank XV The social enterprise as a vehicle to poverty alleviat... file 3558 Jul 27, 2015

Over the last decades, social enterprises have increasingly gained importance in the travel and tourism industry and they are revolutionizing the way business is done. Instead of maximizing profits for external shareholders, a social enterpr...

Author: Sebastian Ferrari & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2015 

82 Think Tank XVI SWOT Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship in Enterprises file 3545 Jul 02, 2016

Social Enterprise is known as a non-profit action aiming social benefits. Social entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is social actions which create permanent and sustainable values by offering innovative perspectives to find solutions fors...

Author: Sema Alimoğlu Özkan & Ali Şükrü Çetinkaya 

Year: 2016 

81 Think Tank X Knowledge Economies, Knowledge Making, Complexity Theo... file 3542 Oct 13, 2013

This paper narrates processes associated with the development of microtourism enterprises as one part of a broader organically determined sustainable development agenda in a north eastern coastal village in Bali. The paper’s narrative is co...

Author: Gayle Jennings 

Year: 2010 

80 Think Tank XVIII SMTE’s use of SoMe and Sustainability file 3499 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.

Author: Ida Marie Visbech Andersen 

Year: 2018 

79 Think Tank XVI Tourists vs Tour operators Preferences for CSR Policie... file 3460 Jul 02, 2016

There is an increasing concern for environmental and social issues among international travelers. As a consequence, many tourist corporations have been exploring the implementation of Social Responsibility (SR) policies as a tool to gain co...

Author: Jorge E. Araña, Gianluca Goffi & Carmelo J. León 

Year: 2016 

78 Think Tank XV A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship file 3439 Jul 24, 2015

As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; T...

Author: Mingming Chen, Deborah Edward, Simon Darcy 

Year: 2015 

77 Think Tank XIX Nature-based tourism among ‘bad-nature’: Creating sust... file 3433 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: nature based tourism, sustainable tourism, invasive species, pollution, environmental degradation, New Zealand Page: 115-118 Nature-based tourism Among Bad Tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Defini...

Author: Brent Lovelock, Anna Carr and Stuart Hayes 

Year: 2019 

76 Think Tank XVI The Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility: An ove... file 3379 Jul 02, 2016

In the tourism industry, whilst some companies have taken active steps towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), others are yet to adopt a responsible approaching to business. According to Betz (2010), CSR is a relatively new concept i...

Author: Susanne Reimann & Sandro Carnicelli 

Year: 2016 

75 Think Tank XII Sustainability and policy mobility in resort destinations file 3353 Nov 06, 2013

In the arena of resort development, there is a long history of destinations emulating (and seeking to surpass) one another in efforts to maintain competitiveness. In recent years, the use of “best case” examples are common tools employed to ...

Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams 

Year: 2012 

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