Environmental management and online environmental performance assessment tools in the hotel industry: Theory and practice

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 342-355

  Bohdanowicz Godfrey, Paulina ^a   Zientara, Piotr ^b  

^a Hilton Worldwide ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

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