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2008

Hotels – Energy consumption; Hotels – Environmental aspects; United States

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Greening In The United States Hotel Sector: An Exploratory Examination, Adam Kaplan May 2008

Greening In The United States Hotel Sector: An Exploratory Examination, Adam Kaplan

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The aim of this paper is to explore the concept of greening in the U.S. hotel sector. Much of the existing research on the topic of greening is relegated to the European and Asian hotel sectors. Within the literature review, the paper will examine what industry leaders and scholars have reported about the progress of greening in the global sector. Given the scant research domestically, the paper will attempt to generalize some of the findings to the situation in the U.S. hotel sector. The paper’s methodology section will build on European research on greening and develop a blueprint for U.S. …