%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation of Sustainable Tourism Development of the Hotel Industry in Hainan, China by Earth Check
%A Hongjuan Song
%A Zhenxiang Zhang
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 1
%N 9
%P 1-12
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2014
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1100854
%X <p style="text-align:justify;">
	The tourism industry has a higher dependence on natural and cultural
resources and is more vulnerable to environmental impacts than any other
industry. It faces a plethora of issues, risks, and opportunities related to sustainability
and environmental change. The hotel industry is one of the most important parts
of tourism. Three China Green certified hotels (the
Guesthouse International Hotel Sanya, the Leaguen Resort Sanya Bay and the Boao
Golden Coast Hot Spring Hotel) are being chosen as samples for our case
studies. This paper introduces these three hotels, and then gives the results
from the field investigation and the interviews conducted with hotel staff.
Based on the data collected, this paper uses Earth Checkas, a sustainable
development evaluation tool, to assess these three hotels. Through evaluating
our results, we verify whether the China Green Hotel standard meets the
international standard requirements of Earth Check. Meanwhile, with this inspection
we determine whether Earth Check is suitable for application in the China hotel
industry and the whole tourism industry. Through our research of these three hotels,
we found that the Earth Check standard can be implemented in the hotel industry
in China to help these hotels develop a sustainable hotel.
</p>
%K Sustainability
%K Environmental Management
%K Hotel Industry
%K Benchmarking
%K Earth Check
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/3102506