Empirical application of the green hotel rating

Actual Problems of Economics

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 574-583

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

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Building infrastructure; Conceptual framework; Environmental protection; Green hotel; Green hotel rating program; Natural conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866774468     PISSN: 19936788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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