This study illustrates alternative “green” strategies to indicate possible re-actions of the hotel sector to the environmental issue and the extent of the “greening” process on the control system. Questionnaire survey was used to discuss the environmental standing of hotel and the control system. Analysis is based on comparison of hotel managers operating with an environmental policy and those managers operating without. Tentative conclusions indicated that although a number of companies have adopted an environmental policy, in general, the hotel sector is not taking a proactive approach to environmental concerns.
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