RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FOR TOURISM

Turizam Volume 18 Issue 4 2014

Trends on the international tourist market are recording numerous changes almost on a daily basis, regarding the development of ecological tourist offer. Modern tourists are becoming more and more aware of the necessity of applying the principles of sustainable development in everyday life, so the same preferences are being expressed during their stay in their chosen tourist destination. The management of ecologically oriented tourist destination must pay special attention to the use of renewable energy sources, and in its micro-environment encourage an approach to business according to modern ecological standards. The implementation of renewable energy sources in tourism and hospitality industry aims at ensuring the improvement of business, profiling of an ecologically responsible tourist destination, repositioning of the current tourist offer on the international tourist market and achieving competitive advantages and conquest of a specific tourist segment of ecologically-oriented...

Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal

The strategic changes in the energy management are usually increased after petrol crisis or policy changes. The Kyoto protocol and the increase of fossil fuel price make necessary a deep change in the design and the management of the energy facilities. Spain in general is living now these big changes, and there is an upsurge of installation of renewable energy sources. Hotels are high energy consumers in the tertiary building sector. Improved service quality forces hotel building facilities and installations to be maintained to the highest standards, thus renovations are becoming common to remain competitive. This offers great opportunities for promoting renewable energy sources (RES) and rational use of energy (RUE) in the hotel sector. The Balearic Islands have been one of the first tourist destinations; there are about half a million beds available. There is a rise in the number of hotels that, while improving the energy facilities, can supply a part of the energy consumption by RES, without change the comfort.

The strategic changes in the energy management are usually increased after petrol crisis or policy changes. The Kyoto protocol and the increase of fossil fuel price make necessary a deep change in the design and the management of the energy facilities. Spain in general is living now these big changes, and there is an upsurge of installation of renewable energy sources. Hotels are high energy consumers in the tertiary building sector. Improved service quality forces hotel building facilities and installations to be maintained to the highest standards, thus renovations are becoming common to remain competitive. This offers great opportunities for promoting renewable energy sources (RES) and rational use of energy (RUE) in the hotel sector. The Balearic Islands have been one of the first tourist destinations; there are about half a million beds available. There is a rise in the number of hotels that, while improving the energy facilities, can supply a part of the energy consumption by ...

Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2016

The energy analysis of five summer operating hotels in Crete, Greece was implemented and their average annual energy consumption has been estimated at 149 KWh/m 2 and 19.4 KWh/p.n.s. Their average annual CO2 emissions due to energy use have also been estimated at 12.1 kg CO2/p.n.s.. Hotels in Crete utilize various renewable energy technologies with solar thermal energy being the most widely used. Apart from solar thermal energy, solar cooling, passive solar, solar-PV, solid biomass burning and low enthalpy geothermal energy with heat pumps have also been used in various cases. Since some of these technologies are currently cost effective having at the same time many environmental benefits , it is expected that in the future renewable energy technologies will have more applications in providing heat , cooling and electricity in hotels in Crete. Use of various renewable energy technologies in hotels could result in zeroing their CO2 emissions due to the energy use in them. The Greek government currently subsidizes the use of energy saving and renewable energy technologies in hotels aiming in reducing their high energy consumption and the use of the polluting fossil fuels in them.

UTMS Journal of Economics, 2016

This study aimed to investigate the nature of energy applied in hotel industry in Macedonia. It explored the indicators for resources application in three, four and five star hotels. The data were collected by means of an online survey conducted among 45 managers and department supervisors. It is found that large number of hotels lack measures to reduce the conventional energy use and replace it with renewable sources of energy. Considering the fact that energy use is a substantial cost factor, the modest and restricted application of geothermal energy, biofuels and photocell lightening is extremely alarming for achieving sustainable tourism development. The study concludes that Macedonian hotels although being fully aware of importance of energy efficiency concept, it is not their managerial priority. It further pointed out that the development and operation of sustainable hotels requires properly planned and designed environmental protection practices. Finally, the study recommend...

JOWITED, 2019

This paper presents the benefits accruable from the use of renewable energy sources for energy generation in tourist destinations as against the present means used in getting electricity which has disadvantages like noise pollution, insecurity of supply and other environmental problems. The tourism industry is a global phenomenon that has been growing rapidly over the past decades, particularly in the developed countries. Today, tourism is one of the single largest business sector in the world economy, creating employment, providing new business opportunities both locally and globally. The means of electricity supply should therefore be of a great concern to the people as power is a well-known important factor for tourism development. Different renewable energy sources were listed and their operational performance explained. With this, a comparison was thereby made with the dominant source of energy generation (fossil fuels, hydro power plants, Gas turbines and so on). It was then seen that several benefits would arise in the usage of renewable energy sources in tourist attractions. This will go a long way in helping the country, the management of the tourist attraction and also the individual customer.

Tourism Management, 2003

Today, there is a general consensus on the existence of an anthropogenic increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the necessity of measures to tackle the resulting climate change. The tourist industry as a fast growing sector should to do its bit, too, especially since it is already affected by climate change itself. The following article presents an option for mitigating climate change by reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from activities in holiday resorts. It shows how holiday facilities can be supplied with the different commodities like electricity, water etc. without release of greenhouse gases. The energy originates from wind and the sun and is stored in form of hydrogen when necessary. The benefits of such supply schemes are manifold. Apart from the CO 2 emission free energy provision other positive external effects can be realised, the marketing position can be strengthened and finally the basis of tourism industry itself can be sustained.

Tourism and hospitality management, 2007

Renewable energy is necessary for each industry functioning, also for hotel industry. It’s necessary for warming, lightening hotels, for kitchens functioning in hotels, for transport vehicles movement, for hotel pools, etc. In lack of classic energy sources, long period of time some work is done on finding new energy sources, besides oil and coal, water and wind. Nowadays, solar energy is very popular, which is already supplied, bio-energy, wind energy, water energy, geothermal and gas energy, steam, and still a work is done on permanent finding of new renewable energy sources (fuel cell resources, ocean/wave resources). In this paper, overworked data is shown, brought by Ohrid hotels and SWOT analyses has been done of energy consumption in hotel industry in Ohrid, with proposals for modernization, efficiency, aiming to modern tourism development, environment protection, human health protection. In this way, basic demands for entering the European Union will be satisfied and legisla...

Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2006

The project HOTRES aimed at the systematic implementation of conditions for future massive applications of the renewable energies in the tourism industry. Under the umbrella of this project five renewable energy technologies were promoted (solar thermal, solar passive, solar PV, biomass 1364-0321/$ -see front matter q and geothermal energy) in parallel in five EU regions (East Attica, Sicily, Alpes-Maritimes, Andalusia and Madeira) by the corresponding agencies and promotion centers following an extensive and intensive work program be composed of six elaboration phases. The purpose of this article is to esteem the results achieved in the technical-economic field of the relevant extensive technical support project in 200 hotels as well as to validate the strategic methodology applied for the promotion of the renewable energy technologies (RETs) through the technical assistance of the hotel SMEs. Finally, by proving the liability and economic viability of RET applications in hotels, the largest European hotel installation with solar thermal is presented within technical and economic details. q

Renewable Energy

Tourism belongs to the industries with significant energy consumption. Visitors as well as hotel managers have, however, a positive attitude towards the responsible use of energy resources. The level of research on visitors' preferences of using different types of renewable energy is low, unlike findings on factual characteristics of conventional and renewable energies. That is why our aim was to assess visitors' preferences of environmentally friendly energy sources in hotels. Preferences of six types of renewable energy-"green" tariff energy, solar panels on the rooftops, solar panels on the ground, heat pumps, AD, wind turbine, were measured at four tourist destinations in the Czech Republic. The positive attitude of tourists towards the selected types of energy sources was confirmed. The highest preferences were found for solar panels installed on the rooftops. A typology of preferences was revealed by cluster analysis and differences between clusters were tested for independent variables. Clusters of visitors with a high and low interest in any type of renewable energy were identified as well as a cluster of visitors with interest in all types apart from solar panels installed on the ground-the visitor's origin was found as the main differentiation factor.