Mass tourism and water efficiency in the hotel industry: A case study

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• 作者：Ariadna Gabarda-Mallorquí ; ^a ; ^{ariadna.gabarda@udg.edu} ; Xavier Garcia^b ; ^{xavier.garciaacosta@udg.edu} ; Anna Ribas^a ; ^{anna.ribas@udg.edu}
• 关键词：Water use ; Efficiency ; Hotels ; Mass tourism ; Costa Brava ; Spain
• 刊名：International Journal of Hospitality Management
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：61
• 期：Complete
• 页码：82-93
• 全文大小：1168 K
• 卷排序：61

文摘

Mass tourism, which has traditionally been associated with an unsustainable use of natural resources and intensive land use, is frequently identified as a major environmental stressor in coastal regions. Nonetheless, mass tourism resorts typically have a compact and vertical urban configuration and have been shown to make more efficient use of water resources than other low-density tourist destinations. This article investigates how the main variables identified by the literature as determinants of water consumption by hotels influences water efficiency in hotels in Lloret de Mar, a well-known mass tourism destination on the Costa Brava in Spain. The results of a generalized linear mixed model show that large, high-rise hotels that attract thousands of tourists annually also benefit from economies of scale in terms of water efficiency.