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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,565 Views
27 Pages

6 February 2022

To develop the hotel industry’s competitiveness, research on satisfaction and revisit intentions has always been important. More research has recently focused on guests’ pro-environmental behaviors and low-carbon management in the hotel i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Consumer Behaviour)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,979 Views
18 Pages

Stakeholder Differences in Valued Hotel Green Practices

  • Jorge Julião,
  • Inês Monteiro,
  • Marcelo Gaspar and
  • Maria Alice Trindade

26 June 2025

This paper aims to compare the perceptions of hotel customers and hotel staff regarding the value of green hotel attributes. By examining both stakeholder groups, the study addresses a gap in sustainable hospitality research, which largely overlooks...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
27,522 Views
20 Pages

Greenwashing Behavior in Hotels Industry: The Role of Green Transparency and Green Authenticity

  • Mansour Alyahia,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Sameh Fayyad,
  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer and
  • Abuelkassem A. A. Mohammad

25 January 2024

Greenwashing has become a pervasive phenomenon in the tourism and hospitality sector, posing significant challenges and potential reputational damage to green hotels. Despite its prevalence, research on mitigating greenwashing’s influence on gu...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Citations
70,342 Views
20 Pages

A Description of Green Hotel Practices and Their Role in Achieving Sustainable Development

  • Ahmed Hassan Abdou,
  • Thowayeb Hassan Hassan and
  • Mohammed Moustafa El Dief

18 November 2020

In this study, we aim to investigate environmental management representatives’ perceptions regarding the extent of the contribution of green hotel practices to achieving the environment-related sustainable development goals (SDGs). To achieve t...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,747 Views
16 Pages

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that discouraged Taiwan hoteliers from applying for green hotel certification. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method was used to perform a weighted analysis that comprehensively iden...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geo Data Science for Tourism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,708 Views
30 Pages

1 February 2026

Sustainable tourism has become a priority as environmental pressures on the hospitality sector intensify. Despite increasing promotion of green hotels, a persistent gap remains between pro-environmental intentions and actual booking behavior. Prior a...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,232 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable human resource management (SHRM) practices are extensively believed to cause a strategic advantage for the hotel industry. However, while a growing body of evidence indicates that SHRM practices are related to superior organization-level...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Human Resource Management and Marketing Studies in the Service Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
10,434 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Green Transformational Leadership on Employees’ Environmental Performance in the Hotel Industry Context: Does Green Work Engagement Matter?

  • Mohamed Ahmed Suliman,
  • Ahmed Hassan Abdou,
  • Moatazbellah Farid Ibrahim,
  • Dayal Ali Waheer Al-Khaldy,
  • Ashraf Mohamed Anas,
  • Wael Mohamed Mahmoud Alrefae and
  • Wagih Salama

2 February 2023

This study primarily aimed to investigate the impact of green transformational leadership on employees’ environmental performance and green work engagement in the hotel business. In addition to this, it sought to empirically examine the potenti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,609 Views
23 Pages

Driving Sustainability Performance in Hotels Through Green Digital Leadership and Circular Economy: The Moderating Role of Hotel Green Efficacy

  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Mansour Alyahya,
  • Sameh Fayyad,
  • Mohamed Aboutaleb and
  • Abuelkassem A. A. Mohammad

28 May 2025

This study examines the role of green digital transformational leadership (GDTL) in enhancing sustainability performance in the hotel industry through the mediating mechanism of circular economy (CE) practices and the moderating effects of otel green...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigating Digital Transformation: Leadership and Decision Making in Today’s Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
453 Views
30 Pages

15 July 2026

As consumer demand for green products and sustainability awareness continue to rise, hotel groups are now expected to go beyond merely satisfying basic needs through traditional strategy. They should align their environmental and social responsibilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
15,256 Views
19 Pages

26 July 2022

Theme hotels are becoming popular because of their fascinating characteristics, within which, theme hotels that feature green practices have become a niche market in the highly competitive hotel industry. Despite past research demonstrating that the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourist Satisfaction, Sustainability, and Sustainable Tourism Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,477 Views
22 Pages

From Green Inclusive Leadership to Green Organizational Citizenship: Exploring the Mediating Role of Green Work Engagement and Green Organizational Identification in the Hotel Industry Context

  • Ahmed Hassan Abdou,
  • Majed Abdulaziz Al Abdulathim,
  • Nadia Rebhi Hussni Hasan,
  • Maha Hassan Ahmed Salah,
  • Howayda Said Ahmed Mohamed Ali and
  • Nancy J. Kamel

17 October 2023

This study aims to explore the pivotal role of green inclusive leadership (GIL) in driving sustainability efforts in the hotel industry, guided by the social exchange theory (SET). The research centers on three core objectives: firstly, evaluating ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Organizational Change and Leadership Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,280 Views
16 Pages

8 April 2023

In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for sustainability in the hospitality industry. The hotel industry, in particular, has been identified as a significant contributor to environmental degradation. To address this issue, hot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,975 Views
21 Pages

Determinants and Consequences of Green Investment in the Saudi Arabian Hotel Industry

  • Ahmed Hassan Abdou,
  • Thowayeb H. Hassan,
  • Amany E. Salem,
  • Mohamed Ahmed Elsaied and
  • Ahmed Anwar Elsaed

16 December 2022

Hotels in today’s business environment are no longer solely concerned with profit, but rather with profit, people, and the planet (3Ps). In corporate terms, green investment (GI) is regarded as a strategy that aims for maximum profit with minim...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,690 Views
20 Pages

The growing emphasis on sustainable tourism has increased the importance of environmentally responsible practices in the hospitality industry. Green hotels have emerged as an important strategy for reducing environmental impacts while meeting the exp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Management for Sustainability in the Hospitality, Tourism, and Meeting Industries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,726 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2024

This study was carried out to determine the relationships between green leadership perceived by hotel employees and environmental commitment, environmental awareness, and employees’ green behavior. In contrast to previous research in the litera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,944 Views
16 Pages

Green Human Resource Management and Employee Retention in the Hotel Industry of UAE: The Mediating Effect of Green Innovation

  • Fida Hassanein,
  • Amira Daouk,
  • Diala Yassine,
  • Najib Bou Zakhem,
  • Ranim Elsayed and
  • Ahmad Saleh

30 May 2024

The concept of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) is regarded as a major turning point in managing human capital among firms. Sustainable practices, ecofriendly initiatives, and adequate management of employees (i.e., recruitment, training, perfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustaining Work and Careers for Human Well-Being in the New Normal)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,460 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2020

Sustainability has long been a buzzword and is also currently one of the major priorities of tourism all over the world. In many places, hotels function as a driving force for socio-economic development, serving as employers for the local population,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,319 Views
17 Pages

Catalyzing Green Work Engagement in Hotel Businesses: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence

  • Hazem Ahmed Khairy,
  • Mohamed Ahmed,
  • Arwa Asiri,
  • Foziah Gazzawe,
  • Mohamed A. Abdel Fatah,
  • Naim Ahmad,
  • Ayman Qahmash and
  • Mohamed Fathy Agina

19 August 2024

This study explores green work engagement in response to the global demand for sustainability in businesses and the shift toward green-oriented agendas. Specifically, this study aims to examine how green work engagement (GWE) is affected by artificia...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,076 Views
28 Pages

6 March 2025

Online recommendation agents have demonstrated their value in various contexts by helping users navigate information overload, supporting decision-making, and influencing user behavior. There is a lack of studies focusing on recommendation systems fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,672 Views
14 Pages

The present research was an empirical endeavor to explore the effect of green spaces on the traveler retention process and to establish a theory connecting such green spaces, psychological resilience, attitude, brand attachment, and retention in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,421 Views
13 Pages

Background: This research examines the direct influence of green supply chain management (GSCM) on hotel competitiveness and the indirect impact through environmental performance (EP). The competition between enterprises in today’s changing mar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Logistics in the New Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
8,344 Views
19 Pages

22 April 2021

In the context of climate change and all other harmful effects of pollution, companies should improve their environmental performances. As part of their strategies, companies should explore the consequences of their environmental practices from the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmentally Sustainable Behavior: Theories, Empirical Evidence and Implications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,791 Views
22 Pages

30 March 2023

This article reports the findings of how green human resource management (GHRM) practices can influence the perceptions of hotel employees regarding their organizations’ commitments to green psychological climate (GPC) and their environmentally...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,747 Views
19 Pages

27 November 2024

This study examines how digital marketing characteristics—namely interactivity, ubiquity, and credibility—affect green consumer brand engagement and loyalty in Nigeria’s five-star hotel industry. This study advances relationship mar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Brand Management and Consumer Perceptions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
824 Views
23 Pages

22 July 2026

As sustainability becomes a strategic priority within the hospitality industry, understanding how environmentally responsible practices influence customer behaviours beyond loyalty has become increasingly important. This study investigates the mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,707 Views
12 Pages

This study is an empirical endeavor to provide a clear comprehension regarding how hotel green design as a workplace innovation contributes to relieving employee stress and emotional fatigue and improves job satisfaction and involvement in the format...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Dark Side and the Light Side of Technology Related Stress and Stress related to Workplace Innovations. From Artificial Intelligence to Business Transformations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,230 Views
23 Pages

Prior research focused mainly on exploring the implementations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in efficient and eco-friendly hotel operations, with very limited studies investigating the vast capabilities of AI, such as AI-generated visual informatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: Transforming Strategy, Insight and Consumer Engagement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,041 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2022

The extant literature lacks evidence concerning the effects of qualitative and quantitative job insecurity (JIS) on service workers’ performance outcomes. This is also true for their effects on green work outcomes. To fill in this void, drawing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marketing Management in Hospitality and Tourism Industries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,718 Views
15 Pages

Environmental Transformational Leadership and Green Innovation in the Hotel Industry: Two Moderated Mediation Analyses

  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Manal A. Abdelrahman,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Mahmaod Alrawad and
  • Sameh Fayyad

This research aims to investigate the relationships between transformational environmental leadership (ETL), organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE), and green innovation (GI). At the same time, green perceived organizational s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 2nd Edition of Rethinking Work in the Digital Era to Protect the Environment and Promote Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,760 Views
20 Pages

Bridging the Attitude–Behavior Gap in Sustainable Tourism: An Extended TPB Model of Green Hotel Purchase Intentions

  • Arthur Araújo,
  • Isabel Andrés Marques,
  • Lorenza López Moreno and
  • Patricia Carrasco García

15 October 2025

The awareness of tourism’s environmental impact has increased interest in sustainable alternatives such as green hotels, yet tourists often fail to translate pro-environmental attitudes into action, reflecting the attitude–behavior gap. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,980 Views
15 Pages

A successful expansion and intensification of the links between tourism and horticulture is needed for tourism to contribute to economic diversification. Without inter-sectoral coordination and the cultivation of sustainable links between tourism dem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Horticulturalization of the 21st Century Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,418 Views
20 Pages

19 July 2025

This study focuses on a profound paradox in eco-hotel evaluations: why do consumer ratings for location, a static asset, exhibit dynamic fluctuations? To solve this puzzle, we construct a two-stage signal-processing theoretical framework that integra...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,824 Views
19 Pages

Service encounters have long been viewed as determinants of hotel guest loyalty, yet excellent service does not always translate into repeat patronage. This study examines how green service encounters shape guest loyalty in green-certified luxury hot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,697 Views
20 Pages

Work Environment as a Moderator Linking Green Human Resources Management Strategies with Turnover Intention of Millennials: A Study of Malaysian Hotel Industry

  • Syed Usman Qadri,
  • Muhammad Amjad Bilal,
  • Mingxing Li,
  • Zhiqiang Ma,
  • Safwan Qadri,
  • Chengang Ye and
  • Fawad Rauf

16 June 2022

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of green human resource management (GHRM) practices (e.g., green pay attention and rewards, green performance management, green involvement, green recruitment and selection, and green training ro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategies toward a Green Deal and Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,168 Views
24 Pages

Resilience for Sustainability: The Synergistic Role of Green Human Resources Management, Circular Economy, and Green Organizational Culture in the Hotel Industry

  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Chokri Kooli,
  • Khaled M. A. Alqasa,
  • Jehad Afaneh,
  • Eslam Ahmed Fathy,
  • Amr Mohamed Fouad and
  • Sameh Fayyad

9 November 2024

This research explores the extent to which Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices in the Egyptian hotel sector contribute to the adoption of Circular Economy (CE) practices and, eventually, organizational resilience. Using a sample of 402 e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism and Hospitality Marketing: Trends and Best Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
22,565 Views
25 Pages

With a global focus on environmental sustainability, hotels worldwide are actively transitioning their services from conventional to eco-friendly practices. This study aims to comprehensively understand the factors that contribute to visitors’...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,738 Views
22 Pages

5 November 2020

Although research on human resource management practices (HRMPs) has been ongoing for many years, studies have actually paid little attention to HRMPs and their contribution to the emotional side of the bottom line or commitment to the external envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Management, Strategy and Sustainability in Tourism and Hospitality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,890 Views
15 Pages

28 March 2023

Customers are becoming more concerned about the use of green practices in the hotel industry. Managers are therefore starting to recognise the significance of green practices for clients’ purchasing decisions and levels of satisfaction. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,203 Views
29 Pages

Determinants and Impacts of Quality Attributes on Guest Perceptions in Norwegian Green Hotels

  • Usman Ali,
  • Huseyin Arasli,
  • Furkan Arasli,
  • Mehmet Bahri Saydam,
  • Emel Capkiner,
  • Emel Aksoy and
  • Guzide Atai

21 March 2023

The study aims to contribute to tourism literature and the Norwegian hospitality industry by integrating and mapping guests’ green hotel experiences. Hence, the study deploys mix-methods to aid in depicting guest preferences and perspectives on...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Innovation in Tourism and Hospitality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,333 Views
13 Pages

Discretionary environmental behaviors are usually encouraged beyond a formal reward system, but environmental skeptics, from managers or co-workers, place underdog expectations on the importance of organizational citizenship behaviors for workplace e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue What Influences Environmental Behavior?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,811 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2021

In the field of tourism, casino hotels consume considerable energy and water resources. They differ from general hotels due to their specific features; consequently, the environmental practices of casino hotels differ from those of general hotels. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,258 Views
14 Pages

Green Hotels: Exploring the Drivers of Customer Approach Behaviors for Green Consumption

  • Heesup Han,
  • Che Chen,
  • Linda Heejung Lho,
  • Hyeran Kim and
  • Jongsik Yu

3 November 2020

This research developed an integrated theoretical framework encompassing green image congruence, care for the environmental consequences, eco-conscious behaviors, sense of moral obligation, and perceived environmental corporate social responsibility...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,912 Views
18 Pages

4 April 2022

In this study, value-belief-norm (VBN) theory and the social exchange theory (SET) were applied to predict hotel customers’ pro-environmental responsibility behavior intention (PRBI) for the characteristics of NBSs in green hotels—specifi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Nature-Based Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,195 Views
21 Pages

Understanding the Nexus between Social Commerce, Green Customer Citizenship, Eco-Friendly Behavior and Staying in Green Hotels

  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Mansour Alyahya,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Mahmoud A. Mansour,
  • Abuelkassem A. A. Mohammad and
  • Sameh Fayyad

7 February 2024

Understanding the factors and motivations that drive consumers to engage in eco-friendly behavior within the realm of social commerce is essential to provide insights into crafting targeted marketing efforts and campaigns. By aligning eco-friendly in...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,206 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2023

To improve carbon reduction efficiency, green hotels adopt cash discount incentives to encourage green customer behavior. However, the effectiveness of these incentives in promoting green customer behavior has been controversial. Prior studies argue...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Hospitality Management and Marketing: From Theory to Survival Reality)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,244 Views
10 Pages

28 December 2023

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that impact millennials’ intentions to visit green hotels in India and their willingness to participate in the sustainable practices offered by hoteliers. The main objective is to find ant...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Eng. Proc., 2023, RAiSE-2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,784 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2021

Although the occupancy rate of green hotels is a hot topic in the sustainable tourism economy, few empirical studies have used the expanded norm activation model to explore what drives consumers’ intentions to stay at green hotels. This study took en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
138 Citations
11,240 Views
14 Pages

20 October 2020

This study aimed to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry. We examined the interplay between consumers’ fear and uncertainty of COVID-19, their trust in green hotel brands, and their behavioral intentions in relation t...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,411 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2018

Under increasing environmental pressure, hotel firms need to improve their ability to access international alliances while maintaining good performance for sustainable development. This paper uses survey data from 784 hotels running at different leve...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

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