Assessment: Individual Report
Hotel: Hilton
Student Name: Shuai He
Student Number: 17673716
Student E-mail: heshuai931019@gmail.com
Semester: 2014/02
Campus: Bentley
Tutor’s Name: Endah Ibrahim
Tutorial Day and Time: Wednesday 3-5pm
Executive Summary
The purpose of this report is to analyze the Hilton’s sustainable business approach and recommend some practical solutions on how the lodging facilities could improve on its sustainable development initiatives. Economy, environmental and social are three fundamentals of sustainable development. This report will mainly focus on the environmental issues. The report indicates that there are four primary sustainability issues in the most lodging facilities and concludes that Hilton’s Worldwide created flexible approaches to apply on the issues and its sustainable performances are very impressive. The report also provides some recommendations for the other organizations.
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References: Energy. “Living Sustainability” Accessed September 15. URL: http://cr.hiltonworldwide.com/sustainably/sustainability_energy.html Hilton Worldwide Commit to Repurpose Waste Across 90 Countries. 2013. “Green Hotelier” Accessed September 18. URL: http://www.greenhotelier.org/our-themes/waste/hilton-worldwide-commit-to-repurpose-waste-across-90-countries/ Lightstay. “Living Sustainability” Accessed September 12. URL: http://cr.hiltonworldwide.com/sustainably/sustainability_lightStay.html O’Halloran, Robert. 2014. “Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism: ‘Just Get Started’” Accessed September 8, http://hotelexecutive.com/business_review/2188/sustainable-hospitality-and-tourism-just-get-started Overview. “Living Sustainability” Accessed September 9. URL: http://cr.hiltonworldwide.com/sustainably/sustainability_overview.html Sloan, Philip, Willy Legrand, and Joseph S. Chen. 2013. Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry. Second Edition. Abingdon: Routledge. The image of Estimated Utility Cost Savings 2009-2012. 2014. Overview. URL: http://cr.hiltonworldwide.com/sustainably/sustainability_overview.html Water. “Living Sustainability” Accessed September 15. URL: http://cr.hiltonworldwide.com/sustainably/sustainability_water.html