Determinants and benchmarking of resource consumption in hotels-Case study of Hilton International and Scandic in Europe

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-95

  Bohdanowicz, Paulina ^a   Martinac, Ivo ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Hilton International; Hotel; Modelling; Physical and operational factors; Resource consumption; Scandic

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARDS;

RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; WATER UTILIZATION;

HOTELS;

EID: 33751583652     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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