Vol.3 No.4 2009
Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures
12/20/2009
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Issues, Challenges, and Trends, that Facing
Hospitality Industry
WANG Jin-zhao1
WANG Jing2
Abstract: This article presents findings of issues, challenges and trends that hospitality industry might fact in the year ahead respectively. Top issues that will influence the global hospitality industry in the year ahead include sustainable
development calls for green hospitality, labor cost, multicultural issues and higher education. Challenges that facing hospitality include will include operating issues, marketing issues, technological issues and economic issues.
Identified ten key trends that, taken together, we believe will shape the hospitality sector this year and for years to come include rapid growth in vacation ownership, integration & globalization, new management.
Key words: Issues; Challenges; Trends; Hospitality Industry
1. ISSUES IN HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
1.1 Sustainable Development Calls for Green Hospitality
Going green is a white-hot issue in the hospitality-design industry. People are beginning to look at sustainable solutions in a whole new way. The perception of green has changed; it has gone from a fringe movement to mainstream.
As a sign of its sweeping popularity, one of the best attended sessions at the recent Lodging
Conference in Phoenix was: “Going Green: Environmentally Profitable Hotels.” Some of the pioneers of the green hospitality movement, there were to share their challenges and triumphs in working toward a carbon constrained future. The basis of sustainable hospitality operation is a three-part balance, expressed as “profits, people, and planet.” By taking those three elements into account, thus, a sustainable green hospitality development program becomes
References: The Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine, 50 Best Employers in Canada 2007. January 3, 2007 Aurelio G International Review of Economics, October, 2007 Jim Butler, Green Hospitality Development Gaining In Popularity,