Mass tourism and water efficiency in the hotel industry: A case study |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography & Institute of Environment, University of Girona, Spain;2. School of Architecture, International University of Catalonia, Spain;1. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environment Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 10085, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;1. Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), C. Emili Grahit 101, 17003 Girona, Spain;2. Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain;3. Department of Civil Engineering, California State University, Chico, 400 West First Street Chico, CA, 95929, United States;4. Institute of the Environment (LEQUIA), University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Mass tourism, which has traditionally been associated with an unsustainable use of natural resources and intensive land use, is frequently identified as a major environmental stressor in coastal regions. Nonetheless, mass tourism resorts typically have a compact and vertical urban configuration and have been shown to make more efficient use of water resources than other low-density tourist destinations. This article investigates how the main variables identified by the literature as determinants of water consumption by hotels influences water efficiency in hotels in Lloret de Mar, a well-known mass tourism destination on the Costa Brava in Spain. The results of a generalized linear mixed model show that large, high-rise hotels that attract thousands of tourists annually also benefit from economies of scale in terms of water efficiency. |
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| Keywords: | Water use Efficiency Hotels Mass tourism Costa Brava Spain |
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