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The Implementation of the Circular Economy R-Principles and Strategies: The Portuguese Hotel Industry Perspective

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais
datacite.subject.sdg08:Trabalho Digno e Crescimento Económico
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Berta
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Susana
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Natália
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-04T19:24:38Z
dc.date.available2025-12-04T19:24:38Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-11
dc.descriptionConference name 7th International Conference on Tourism Research, ICTR 2024, Cape Town, 18 June 2024 - 19 June 2024.
dc.description.abstractCircular Economy (CE) is a concept that has been gaining increasing importance in business circles and advocated by European Union, and by several governments worldwide. It is acknowledged that it has the potential to optimise resource efficiency, minimise production and consumption of greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously granting competitive advantage business prospects. Although it has been gaining momentum among academia, politicians, and practitioners, it is apparent some struggling when it comes to the design of a framework explaining how companies can embrace circularity and on how to adapt their business model to this new economic system. Despite its importance and applicability by the travel and tourism sector in general and the hotel industry in particular, it is insufficiently studied and examined. This empirical study investigates this concept on the Portuguese hotel industry perspective concerning the adoption of CE practices and CE R-principles through a survey instrument disseminated across the Portuguese hotel industry, with 78 valid responses. This article also introduces a new set of R-principles to the already existing ones, and contributes to the scientific research on the travel and tourism industry, and mainly to the one linked with the Portuguese hotel industry, which has been vaguely examined up to now. The results obtained indicate that these R-principles have been gaining importance, being adopted, and put into practice by the Portuguese hotel industry with special emphasis on the 3R-Principles (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) along with Repair. Findings also indicate that some initiatives that are in line with a Circular Economy paradigm, namely recycling, reducing water and energy consumption, and cleaning management policies, towel and bed linen programmes, staff and education programmes, green products, certifications, among others, are also being considered.eng
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dc.identifier.citationCosta, B., Rodrigues, S., & Santos, N. (2024, March). The implementation of the circular economy R-principles and strategies: The Portuguese hotel industry perspective. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tourism Research.
dc.identifier.issn25163612
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14890
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherAcademic Conferences and Publishing International Limited
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://papers.academic-conferences.org/index.php/ictr/article/view/2065
dc.rights.uriN/A
dc.subjectCircular Economy
dc.subjectPortuguese Hotel Industry
dc.subjectR-Principles
dc.subjectNatural Resources
dc.titleThe Implementation of the Circular Economy R-Principles and Strategies: The Portuguese Hotel Industry Perspectiveeng
dc.typeconference paper
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oaire.citation.conferenceDate2024-06
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceCape Town
oaire.citation.endPage66
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.startPage57
oaire.citation.titleProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tourism Research, 2024
oaire.citation.volume7
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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person.familyNamePerez Santos
person.givenNameBerta
person.givenNameSusana
person.givenNameMaria Natalia
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