What is a green eco-hotel?

The so-called "eco hotel" is internationally known as "green hotel" or "eco-efficient hotel", which means an ecologically efficient hotel. It refers to a hotel that applies the concepts of environmental protection, health and safety, adheres to green management, advocates green consumption, protects the ecology and rationally uses resources. The "ecology" here not only has the essence of environmental protection, that is, the hotel reduces environmental pollution, saves energy and reduces consumption, and maximizes resource utilization during the operation process, but it also has another special meaning, that is, the natural environment itself. In order to rely on it, we strive to build a hotel that is built on the mountain, where nature and man are integrated, so that the hotel and natural beauty can be integrated into one, and people and heaven and earth can be integrated into one [3].

Whether it is an eco-hotel, a green hotel, or an eco-efficiency hotel, they are all proposed on the basis of sustainable development. The sustainable development of the hotel industry requires hotels to utilize resources without harming the sustainable development of the environment, so as to meet the high-quality hotel consumption needs of contemporary people without jeopardizing the high-quality hotel needs of future generations, while ensuring that hotel guests , hotel employees, and the reasonable interests of the residents where the hotel is located, while ensuring the interests of the hotel, achieving long-term, stable and sustainable development of the hotel, and ultimately achieving the coordinated development of society, environment, and economy.

2.2 Characteristics of eco-hotels

Looking at the famous green eco-hotels at home and abroad, in summary, they have the following construction characteristics:

2.2 .1 From the perspective of hotel construction, most of them emphasize building according to the shape of the mountain and taking advantage of the situation.

For example, this is the case with the Hapuku Lodge located in Kaikoura, a famous environmental protection site in eastern New Zealand. The hotel makes full use of the local dense jungle, and the roof is entirely covered with trees, nestled in the forest, harmoniously integrated with the large forest, thus reflecting the concept that the hotel and the forest are one whole. Visitors here feel like they are in the forest, breathing the natural and fresh air, dancing with the morning mist in the forest, watching the sun shine through the gaps in the forest, or they can also hike to Mangamaunu Beach not far from the hotel for surfing. The mood is naturally contented and extremely comfortable. Another example is the Muang Kulaypan Hotel in Thailand. This hotel's design is inspired by the Thai classical poem "Inao" and is located on the crescent-shaped Chaweng Beach in Koh Samui, Thailand. The hotel is located near the mountains and the sea, extending gently according to the natural ups and downs of the terrain. Instead of a pretentious lobby, the reception area facing the beach gives visitors the best greetings with beautiful natural scenery. Both the walkway and the room are filled with soft light and warm sea breeze. Living in such a hotel, one will naturally have a real desire to fly with seagulls.

2.2.2 Make maximum use of the natural environment without destroying it.

For example, the Jean-Michel Cousteau's Resort in Fiji not only makes full use of the tropical sunshine to build a thatched house hotel, but also makes full use of the area where the hotel is located. "It is called the best in the world." The special attributes of "a marine life viewing place" and the development of diving and viewing marine life projects achieve the beautiful vision of harmonious coexistence between man and nature and promote mutual understanding. It is known as "the first recognized gold-level environmentally friendly building in the world, and has become one of the models of global environmentally friendly hotels." The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel in the United States has also made admirable efforts in maximizing the reasonable development of the natural environment. It makes full use of environmental protection concepts to "love the earth". From the moment they enter the hotel door, guests begin to understand the ubiquitous green concept. All the simple and practical facilities in the hotel tell the story of the hotel's characteristics in energy saving, water saving, and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as the specific differences between it and ordinary hotels. The hotel's name "Gaia" is the name of the ancient Greek goddess meaning "Mother Earth".

2.2.3 The concept of green environmental protection runs through it from beginning to end.

Almost all environmentally friendly hotels are natural resisters of plastics and other products. Therefore, most eco-friendly hotels do not provide disposable plastic products, such as toothbrushes, combs, etc., which are regarded as disposable by ordinary hotels. Natural service items. Not because of cost considerations, but because of the green concept of environmental protection.

2.2.4 Pay attention to green services

Judging from the current development trend of hotel construction, all green and environmentally friendly hotels currently pay more attention to the cultivation of employees’ green environmental protection concepts and integrate the green environmental protection concepts into their employees. to the whole process of hotel service. For example, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Sanya, which is well-known in the domestic industry in recent years, has focused on cultivating employees' environmental awareness. Because the hotel management realizes that the most favorable condition for the hotel's survival is not its hardware facilities, but the surrounding environment that depends on it - the mangrove reserve. Therefore, the hotel requires its employees to consciously become defenders and watchmen of the mangroves, clean up garbage in the mangroves in a timely manner, and conserve the mangroves. Integrating the concept of green environmental protection into the hotel's various service processes is a new development of current green and environmentally friendly hotels. The so-called "green service" not only refers to providing guests with safe, environmentally friendly, and green services, but also refers to using harmonious, natural, and simple services to make guests feel at home, thereby eliminating the general gap between hotels and guests. Diaphragm.