Suggestions on the sustainable development of hotels

With the intensification of competition in the hotel industry, the hotel catering industry has also encountered unprecedented challenges. In order to achieve sustainable development, hotel catering must have the core competitiveness of catering. Being quick for quick success and sacrificing long-term interests is a major drawback of the whole society at present, and the hotel industry in China is no exception. Therefore, people of insight call for the earth to have no future unless the alarm bell is sounded. Sustainable development is the main theme of Scientific Outlook on Development advocated by China government. Green economy has been recognized by more and more citizens, and a harmonious society is not unique, but a hundred flowers blossom. Only by emancipating the mind can we feel the distant past and the lasting future. It is said that people with perseverance have perseverance, but we have to say that people with perseverance naturally have perseverance. Green economy is to put the concept of longevity into economic activities. Green hotels are practitioners of environmental protection economy. Green hotel is called green hotel internationally, but it is also called eco-efficient hotel in official occasions, official meetings and documents, which means "eco-efficient hotel". With the aggravation of global environmental problems, environmental protection, as a concept of human development, will affect people's daily lives, and everyone will participate in environmental protection. For enterprises, it is more important to embody their sense of social responsibility in the process of operation and management, and to ensure that the impact of their production and operation on the environment is minimized. In addition to the manufacturers of environmental protection products and technologies, enterprises are not in favor of seeking their own interests in the name of environmental protection. Therefore, whether the so-called "green economy" will become the mainstream of China's economic development remains to be discussed. Perhaps the concept of "circular economy" is more accurate. Circular economy is the trend of international economic development, and China's economic development is no exception. The green hotel uses the English of the green hotel, just for understanding. "Green" is a metaphor for environmental protection, which has been widely recognized and accepted by the public. For example, Greenpeace is a famous international environmental protection organization. English is very inclusive and innovative, and green hotel will become an accepted title. In English, there are not only eco-efficient hotels, but also environmentally friendly hotels, all of which have similar meanings. An article once wrote that eco-hotels can be considered as green hotels, which are relatively simple. The definition of green hotel is more accurate in "Green Tourist Hotel" issued by National Tourism Administration. "With the concept of sustainable development, adhere to clean production, advocate green consumption and protect the ecological environment. (LB/T007-2006) "In the process of operation and management, mobilize hotel employees and guests to join the ranks of environmental protection, strive to save energy resources, reduce pollutant emissions, and reflect the social responsibility of hotel enterprises. "Let the hotel become a green hotel and let the hotel guests become green consumers", which is a goal that modern hotels should pursue. Green hotel refers to a hotel that takes sustainable development as its concept, integrates environmental management into hotel management, applies the concepts of environmental protection, health and safety, adheres to green management and hotel management, advocates green consumption, protects the ecological environment and makes rational use of resources. The most basic meaning of green hotel is to save energy and reduce consumption, take all possible measures to save energy consumption such as electricity, water and natural gas, realize the maximum utilization of resources, and make the hotel run efficiently. At present, many hotels have integrated the concept of environmental protection into their design from the beginning of building construction, such as using special energy-saving materials to maximize the effect of heat insulation and moisture insulation, so as to reduce the energy consumption during hotel operation. Secondly, another concept of green hotel is to minimize pollution and exhaust emissions and other behaviors that pollute the surrounding environment. At present, the measures generally adopted by the hotel industry are: soliciting opinions from guests and reducing the frequency of changing linen supplies; Use clean fuel instead of burning raw coal. In fact, the creation, implementation and maintenance of green hotels is a continuous development process. It can't be said that any hotel has always been a green hotel since its establishment, and more efforts come from its consistent insistence on environmental protection in the process of management and service. In fact, from the customer's point of view, sometimes advocating green environmental protection will bring some inconvenience to customers, such as advocating small displacement and other measures. Therefore, the construction of green hotels is synchronized with the improvement of environmental awareness of the whole people, and often it needs the cooperation of customers. Green hotel is an environment-friendly and eco-efficient hotel. Green hotel has three concepts and six standards of "green, healthy and environmental protection": minimum emission, recycling and reuse of related items; Effective utilization, storage and management of energy; Management of fresh water resources; Waste water management; Environmental protection-oriented procurement policy; The development of social culture. Green hotel refers to a hotel that applies the concepts of safety, health and environmental protection, adheres to green management, advocates green consumption, protects ecology and makes rational use of resources. Safety means that the hotel has corresponding public safety facilities and food safety guarantee system. Health means that hotels provide consumers with services and products that are beneficial to their physical and mental health. Environmental protection refers to hotel management to reduce environmental pollution, save energy and reduce consumption. Green hotels are divided into five grades: Grade A to AAAAA, and the utensils are marked with Ginkgo biloba leaves with China characteristics, which are awarded to hotels evaluated according to standards. The evaluation of green hotels will be conducted by an expert committee organized by China Hotel Association. In the current standard, the hotel "green" is divided into two grades: gold leaf and silver leaf. Based on the concept of sustainable development, green hotels insist on clean production, advocate green consumption, protect the ecological environment and make rational use of resources. Its basic principles are reduction principle, reuse principle, recycling principle and substitution principle. The qualification to participate in the assessment is a tourist hotel that has been officially opened for more than one year. The evaluated green tourist hotels are reviewed once every three years by the provincial tourist star hotel evaluation agencies. The evaluation results shall be reported to the evaluation institutions of China tourist star hotels for the record. The validity period of the mark is five years (counting from the date of issuance of the certificate). After the expiration, you must reapply and evaluate. If the hotel industry wants to develop continuously, it must be supported by the upper industrial chain, which is also an important concept of green hotels-comprehensive, harmonious and sustainable development. In the process of implementing green hotels, we should always pay attention to the problems of hotel product suppliers. Hotels should reach a kind of communication and cooperation with suppliers to promote the hotel's environmental protection. Many hotels have taken some effective measures, such as purchasing consumables with simple packaging, purchasing durable furniture, purchasing pollution-free vegetables and green food. We hope that the suppliers of hotel equipment, products and technology will pay more attention to the needs of hotels in this respect and produce more and better "environmental protection" products. Green environmental protection mainly refers to reducing environmental pollution, saving energy and reducing consumption, and maximizing the use of resources in the hotel operation process. At present, the concept of green environmental protection is increasingly applied to the operation of urban inns, mainly from two aspects. The first is to save energy and reduce consumption. Including saving water, electricity, coal and natural gas. For example, the hotel establishes a water metering system to record and analyze the water consumption; The central air conditioning equipment is equipped with automatic frequency converter to adjust the water and electricity quota at low power; Rooms use small-displacement toilets; Energy-saving lamps are widely used in the hotel industry, and we will further consider using solar technology products. Secondly, we will try our best to reduce the pollution to the surrounding environment and reduce the emission of waste gas as much as possible. For example, all city inns and hotel chains use heat pumps instead of boilers to heat hot water, which avoids the pollution of exhaust gas generated by boilers to the surrounding environment; The central air conditioner adopts a heat recovery device, which uses the heat energy generated by the operation of the air conditioner to burn domestic water and use renewable resources as much as possible. Never use disposable tableware such as disposable chopsticks and foamed lunch boxes for coffee, and the tableware has complete disinfection measures. All the above measures are the improvement of hotel hardware, but the active cooperation between employees and guests is needed in the implementation. For example, at present, many hotels will post reminders to remind guests to save water and electricity and not to change linen supplies too frequently, but what they can really do may be a few guests. This requires hotels to constantly infiltrate the concept of environmental protection in the course of operation.