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Título: Drivers for pursuing sustainability through IoT technology within high-end hotels: an exploratory study
Autores/as: Eskerod, Pernille
Hollensen, Svend
Francisco Morales-Contreras, Manuel
Arteaga Ortiz, Jesús 
Clasificación UNESCO: 531290 Economía sectorial: turismo
Palabras clave: Building energy
Management systems
Green
Internet de las cosas
Sostenibilidad, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Publicación seriada: Sustainability (Switzerland) 
Resumen: A growing hotel sector makes a significant environmental footprint. Due to a contemporary focus on climate change and high competition within tourism, enhancing sustainability through energy savings is a priority for many hotels. Through technological innovations, Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology provides the opportunity to integrate more systems (e.g., heating, air-conditioning, window-openings) on a platform (also known as smart management), making it easy for a hotel guest to operate room conditions through a single device while also optimizing hotel operations. A research gap on the likelihood of adopting IoT technology to pursue sustainability in the hotel sector exists. Based on explorative case studies of five high-end hotels, this paper offers propositions on drivers for hotels' use of IoT to deliver on their sustainability goals. This study suggests that a hotel is more inclined to implement IoT if (1) the hotel is focused on energy savings, e.g., due to green certificates; (2) it belongs to an international hotel group; (3) decision makers perceive sustainability to be important for their customers; (4) the target group is more B2B (business) than B2C (leisure); (5) the hotel a five star one; and (6) the hotel guests come from Northern Europe or North America.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/62543
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su11195372
Fuente: Sustainability [ISSN 2071-1050], v. 11 (19)
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