THISD Tourism and Hospitality Institute for Sustainable Development

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THISDTourism and Hospitality Institute
forSustainable Development

• Partnerships for a
• Sustainable Future

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Tourism and Hospitality Institute for Sustainable
Development

• interdisciplinary tourism and hospitality faculty
  and professionals
• share a common goal
• To help move the tourism and hospitality
  sustainability agenda forward

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THISD Mission

• Our Mission
• To provide support, research, education and
  training on tourism and hospitality
  sustainability practices and procedures. We will
  work with partners committed to moving the
  agenda forward in reducing the negative and
  enhancing the positive economic, environmental
  and social-cultural impacts of tourism,
  hospitality and related industries.

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Proposed Activities

• Direct services to the industry organizations
• Consulting
• Technical Services
• Education
• Research
• Database services
• Seminars, workshops, forums, conferences

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Phase 1

• 2006 2008 Development of Capacities
• Become knowledge experts
• Where have we been
• Where are we now
• Where do we need to go
• Expanding databases
• Developing industry networks required
  partnerships

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Proposed Tactics

• Property Focus
• support for hotels, restaurants catering
• increase production and profit efficiency
• sustainable practices
• value added impacts on destination values
• Destination Focus
• with key players/stakeholders
• provide hospitality operators with incentives
• generate significant improvements
• to environmental, social and economic welfare of
  travelers and residents.

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Hospitality SustainabilityFocus on Property
Activities

• Reduced Waste
• CO2
• Solid
• Liquid
• Active Community
• Social programs
• Stronger human
• resources

• People
• Staff
• Customers
• Utilities
• Water
• Energy
• Supplies

Output
Given Business model generates limited profit
margins Consolidation growth are key
drivers Stakeholder value S.T. profitability
are critical
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Hospitality Sustainability Marginal Improvements

• Reduce solid waste
• Re-use outputs
• (recycling)
• Community Services
• charities, education,
• awareness

• Reduce CO2 from
• supplier delivery
• Reduce requirements
• for energy water
• Certification of suppliers
• to reduce impacts
• Use environmentally
• friendly supplies

Output
Increased Efficiency Focus on energy Management
systems HR applications (S.T. R.O.I.)
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• SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF
• SUSTAINABILE TOURISM HOSPITALITY
• OUR MAJOR CONCERN IS
• TIME
• CLIMATE CHANGE
• MASS TOURISM
• LOSS OF BIO-DIVERSITY
• ANNUAL TOURISM GROWTH

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• TIME
• For TOBACCO- It was health care
• For FOOD DISTRIBUTORS It is starvation,
  nutrition, safety, GM foods obesity
• When, for HOSPITALITY will it be Energy
  Efficiency (CO2 Taxes) and the cost of public
  utilities for water and waste management?
• For tourism, will aviation and low cost carriers
  be the McDonalds issue of the century?

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Energy Consumption
Travel To
Travel Back
Destination
Source EEA, EPA
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• SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF
• SUSTAINABLE TOURISM HOSPITALITY
• Predicts we have a choice to either be
• Pro-active with some control
• Or
• Re-active responding to social political
  pressures

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FOR HOSPITALITY OPERATORSTOURISM DESTINATIONS

• Sustainability requires
• Profitable businesses
• Access to clean water, air and energy
• Quality natural surroundings
• Protection of unique social and cultural heritage
• Local community involvement support
• Conservation of bio-diverse eco-systems
• Improved planning, legislation and policy
  development

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Hospitality Sustainability Mission Destination
Changes

• More clean water/energy
• than imputed
• Offset of all CO2 emissions
• Education/support of
• Community Sustainable
• efforts

• Optimal local production
• of suppliers
• Optimal use of low
• emission energy efficient
• transportation for
• customers, employees,
• suppliers

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TO DRIVE THE AGENDA FORWARD

• Will Require
• Consumer demand and increased willingness to pay
  for the eco-premiums
• Government, media, NGO, suppliers and other
  destination stakeholders to cooperate to
  establish new incentives for hospitality
  sustainability
• New leadership, education, models and tools to
  support the change

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Your Possible Involvement

• Membership
• Membership for external experts to support
  THISD Activities
• Partnerships
• Organizations with related goals who will be
  mutually beneficial
• Actively involved in sustainable development
  activities
• Share input on ideas, information, and financial
  contributions

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION