Sustainability research in the hotel industry: Past, present, and future

ABSTRACT

Sustainability continues as one of the most commonly discussed trends within the hotel industry. An extensive comprehensive review of previous literature identified 128 articles focusing on sustainability within the industry: management, energy conservation, and education. The studies were broken down into seven categories, allowing for identification of trends. Researchers’ review of the articles identified the most dominant contributors to academic research and the publications which most prominently feature research on the subjects relevant to hotel sustainability. The balanced scorecard categorized research based on five perspectives, identifying the most dominant research on sustainability within the hotel industry. The current study illustrates literature gaps showing what areas research is lacking, allowing future researchers to fill in the holes with future studies.

摘要

可持续性是酒店业最普遍讨论的趋势之一。对先前文献的广泛全面回顾确定了128篇关注于行业内可持续性的文章：管理、节能和教育。研究分为七类，允许识别趋势。研究者对文章的回顾确定了对学术研究和出版物最主要的贡献者，这些出版物最显著的特征是关于与酒店可持续性相关的主题的研究。平衡计分卡基于五个视角对研究进行了分类，确定了酒店业内关于可持续性的最主要的研究。目前的研究说明了文献空白，表明哪些领域的研究是欠缺的，允许未来的研究人员填补未来的研究漏洞。

KEYWORDS:

• Sustainability
• Literature review
• Sustainability studies
• Hotel Sustainability
• Balanced Scorecard

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.