Going green: Developing a conceptual framework for the green hotel rating system

Actual Problems of Economics

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 521-530

  Shieh, Hwai Shuh ^a   Hu, Jin Li ^a   Sheu, Her Jiun ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Building infrastructure; Environmental protection; Green hotel; Green hotel rating system; Natural conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865114226     PISSN: 19936788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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