Green practices implementation for environmental sustainability by five-star hotels in Kampala, Uganda

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Hotels operate continuously and are known to be one of the contributors of global pollution. Strategies like adoption of green practices would be a remedy to mitigate pollution and their effects for environmental sustainability. This study focused on green practice’s implementation by the five-star hotels in Kampala district, Uganda. Specifically, it explored the benefits achieved and effects encountered by the management of the hotels as a result of implementing green practices. A questionnaire survey and interviews were employed to collect the required data from the employees of the five-star hotels. Energy conservation, waste management, and environmental purchasing with their respective coefficient of variances of 12.6, 14.5 and 17.2 were some of the green practices implemented by the hotels. Green practice’s adoption by the five-star hotels culminated into increased profits, competitive advantage, saved on the costs of the materials used and retained some customers. The study recommends that there should be continuous awareness and strengthening of training of the employees about green practices’ implementation, together with government involvement in all matters concerning enforcement of green practices. In addition, the article suggests managerial implications and opportunities for future research.

Related collections

Most cited references 37

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: found

Is Open Access

The impact of the advanced practice nursing role on quality of care, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost in the emergency and critical care settings: a systematic review

Brigitte Woo, Jasmine Xin Yu Lee, Wilson Wai-san Tam (2017)

Background The prevalence of chronic illness and multimorbidity rises with population aging, thereby increasing the acuity of care. Consequently, the demand for emergency and critical care services has increased. However, the forecasted requirements for physicians have shown a continued shortage. Among efforts underway to search for innovations to strengthen the workforce, there is a heightened interest to have nurses in advanced practice participate in patient care at a great extent. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the impact of increasing the autonomy of nurses assuming advanced practice roles in emergency and critical care settings on patient outcomes. Objectives The objectives of this study are to present, critically appraise, and synthesize the best available evidence on the impact of advanced practice nursing on quality of care, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost in emergency and critical care settings. Review methods A comprehensive and systematic search of nine electronic databases and a hand-search of two key journals from 2006 to 2016 were conducted to identify studies evaluating the impact of advanced practice nursing in the emergency and critical care settings. Two authors were involved selecting the studies based on the inclusion criteria. Out of the original search yield of 12,061 studies, 15 studies were chosen for appraisal of methodological quality by two independent authors and subsequently included for analysis. Data was extracted using standardized tools. Results Narrative synthesis was undertaken to summarize and report the findings. This review demonstrates that the involvement of nurses in advanced practice in emergency and critical care improves the length of stay, time to consultation/treatment, mortality, patient satisfaction, and cost savings. Conclusions Capitalizing on nurses in advanced practice to increase patients’ access to emergency and critical care is appealing. This review suggests that the implementation of advanced practice nursing roles in the emergency and critical care settings improves patient outcomes. The transformation of healthcare delivery through effective utilization of the workforce may alleviate the impending rise in demand for health services. Nevertheless, it is necessary to first prepare a receptive context to effect sustainable change. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12960-017-0237-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

0 comments Cited 94 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: not found
Article: not found

Why should hotels go green? Insights from guests experience in green hotels

Roberto Merli, Michele Preziosi, Alessia Acampora … (2019)

0 comments Cited 63 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: not found
Article: not found

Water conservation and waste reduction management for increasing guest loyalty and green hotel practices

Heesup Han, Jin-Soo Lee, Ho Trang … (2018)

0 comments Cited 56 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

All references

Author and article information

Contributors

Alex Barakagira:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0305-9193

abarakagira@kyu.ac.ug

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Environ Dev Sustain

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Environ Dev Sustain

Title: Environment, Development and Sustainability

Publisher: Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )

ISSN (Print): 1387-585X

ISSN (Electronic): 1573-2975

Publication date (Electronic): 15 March 2023

Pages: 1-17

Affiliations

[1 ]GRID grid.442622.4, ISNI 0000 0000 8615 5839, School of Sciences, , Nkumba University, ; P.O. Box 237, Entebbe, Uganda

[2 ]GRID grid.442642.2, ISNI 0000 0001 0179 6299, Faculty of Science, , Kyambogo University, ; P.O. Box 1, Kyambogo, Uganda

Author information

Alex Barakagira http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0305-9193

Article

Publisher ID: 3101

DOI: 10.1007/s10668-023-03101-7

PMC ID: 10016176

SO-VID: a976c307-fecb-407f-8bf7-2749906c3682

Copyright © © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

License:

This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

History

Date received : 4 June 2022

Date accepted : 1 March 2023

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Smart Citations

Citing PublicationsSupportingMentioningContrasting

View Citations

See how this article has been cited at scite.ai

scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.