A study on sustainable consumption practices in Sri Lanka hotel sector

dc.contributor.authorRatnayake, N
dc.contributor.authorMiththapala, S
dc.contributor.editorRatnayake, N
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-04T04:38:56Z
dc.date.available2022-05-04T04:38:56Z
dc.date.issued2011-12
dc.description.abstractTourism is becoming a very important sector in the Sri Lankan economic development, with the end of the 30 year conflect situation. it is reported that 7.9% of ther GDP of Sri Lanka is contributed by the travel and tourism At the same time the tourism industry is one of the highest consumers of energy and natural resources and could become a cause of much envir nmen a an social concern if proper conservation measures are not implemented to reduce the rain on e country s resources. In order to address the above issue, a project called "Greening Sri Lankan Hotels* by tbe Cevlon Chamber of Commerce, under the EU funded Asia program. While the "Greening Sri Lankan Hotels” project has a target of addressing the hotels in the whole country, for the current study, a few hotels where the data was available and the potential for saving could be estimated one were selected. The study showed that even in the more sustainability- conscious hotels, there is room for improving the situation by better practices as well as better choice of equipment. It was found that on average about 30?o of the water consumption and 17% of electricity consumption can be reduced in the three hotels studied. The suggested interventions to achieve such savings would have relatively short payback periods, thus making them worthwhile. They would also reduce the carbon foot print by an average of about 26?o.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRatnayake, N., & Miththapala, S. (2011). A study on sustainable consumption practices in Sri Lanka hotel sector. In N. Ratnayake (Ed.), Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research for Industry Symposium 2011 (pp. 89-94). Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa.en_US
dc.identifier.conferenceCivil Engineering Research for Industry Symposium 2011en_US
dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Civil Engineeringen_US
dc.identifier.emailniranrat@uom.lken_US
dc.identifier.emailsrilalmgcccsolutions.orgen_US
dc.identifier.facultyEngineeringen_US
dc.identifier.pgnospp. 89-94en_US
dc.identifier.placeKatubeddaen_US
dc.identifier.proceedingProceedings of the Symposium on Civil Engineering Research for Industry 2011en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17789
dc.identifier.year2011
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwaen_US
dc.subjectEnergy conservationen_US
dc.subjectGreen hotelsen_US
dc.subjectSustainable tourismen_US
dc.subjectWaste reductionen_US
dc.subjectWater conservationen_US
dc.titleA study on sustainable consumption practices in Sri Lanka hotel sectoren_US
dc.typeConference-Full-texten_US

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