1st Edition

Managing Sustainability in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry Paradigms and Directions for the Future

Edited By Vinnie Jauhari Copyright 2014
522 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

522 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

522 Pages
by Apple Academic Press

This new book focuses on the important concern of sustainability in tourism and hospitality industry. As the world’s natural resource base is limited, the world is looking for solutions in the domains of energy, water, alternate building materials, resource redeployment, and sustainable livelihoods as well. The tourism and hospitality industry is a large deployer of natural and created resources.... Read more

Preface

Designing Sustainable Restaurants: Technical and Human Aspects; Vinnie Jauhari and Tanaya Verma

From Output to Input: The Road from Energy and Carbon Emissions to Principles of Sustainable Hotel Design; Willy Legrand, Philip Sloan, Clara Wagmann, and Larissa Rheindorf

Energy Conservation in Hotels: A Green Approach; Navdeep Kaur Kular

Sustainable Technology in Hospitality Industry: Some Future Directions; Parul Wasan

Marketing Sustainability in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry; Meghna Rishi

Destination Management and Sustainability; Kirti Dutta, Swati Singh, H. G. Parsa, and Vinnie Jauhari

Sustainable Tourist Destinations: Creation and Development; Sandeep Munjal and Parul G. Munjal

Heritage Communication and Sustainable Tourism; Gaurav Tripathi and Sandeep Munjal

Sustainable Culinary Practices; Sanjay Sharma

Sustainable Employee Practices; Moni Mishra

Efficient Equipments: Sources for Sustainability in the Hotel Industry; Subrata Kumar Nandi

Sustainable Restaurants: Current Perspectives and the Way Forward; Rumki Bandyopadhyay and Sandeep Munjal

Conception of Sustainable Accommodation Practices in Hotels for Tomorrow; Anjana Singh and Bandana Rai

Tourism Policy: A Comparative Study of Malaysia and Turkey; Nastaran Laleh and Banafsheh M. Farahani

Index

Biography

Vinnie Jauhari, PhD, is a director at IIMT (Institute for International Management and Technology) (Oxford Brookes University), Gurgaon, in the National Capital Region (NCR Delhi), India. Dr. Jauhari was earlier region lead for HP Labs Open Innovation Office for India. She won the Innovator Award in the worldwide team in 2009. She also won the HP Empower grant for women during her tenure at HP Labs. She has over 17 years of experience in academics and the corporate world. She has authored eight books published from New York and Springer in Germany in the domain of services, hospitality, and technology. She has authored over 100 papers published in international and national journals of repute. She is the founding editor of the Journal of Services Research and the Journal of Technology Management for Growing Economies. She has been a guest editor of numerous international journals and has been a recipient of various awards for research contributions in international journals.

"The vast range of contributions inevitably highlights many interesting case studies and best practice that can be used by tourism and hospitality students and practitioners for inspiration. . . . Its diversity and breath also constitute its main strength, and the book can be a useful addition to the libraries of tourism and hospitality educational institutions, particularly the ones of a more technical nature."
—Tourism Analysis, review by Fernando Correia, The University of Hull, Scarborough, UK