In recent years, many hotels have adopted green practices and have become greener to
attract eco-consciousness consumers and to improve their economic performance. In fact …

Food waste (FW) is a current, complex, and widely debated issue in various spheres of
society. Globally, about 2.6 trillion dollars per year is lost because of wasted food. Part of FW …

Under the policy of energy saving and emission reduction, technological innovation has
become the key power-driver to improve energy utilization efficiency. By using the panel …

Luxury hotels generate substantial carbon footprint and scholarly research is urgently
required to better understand how it could be effectively mitigated. This study adopts a …

A significant improvement in the building stock energy efficiency is imperative to mitigate
climate change. Building stock energy models (BSEMs) that employ reference building …

Energy efficiency has a pivotal role in the European Union energy strategy and the end use
sector which is considered most attractive for energy savings is the building one. Within the …

CO2 is the most emitted greenhouse gas and is mainly produced by human activity. In fact,
about 75% is emitted in cities and 40% of global carbon emissions is produced by the …

In the tourism industry, hotels and homestay facilities account for considerable amounts of
energy consumption and CO 2 emissions. Unlike other types of buildings, occupancy has …

Index decomposition analysis (IDA) has become a common tool for studying the evolution of
energy consumption. In its initial form it comprises three contributions, namely activity …

This study constructs the biennial Malmquist index, including undesirable outputs, to
evaluate tourism energy efficiency and decompose its changes using a sample of 30 …