The Sustainability Issues Facing The Hospitality Sector

Introduction Within the service sector, hospitality industry is a broad category of fields that includes event planning, lodging, cruise line, theme parks, transportation and other fields with the industry of tourism. The industry greatly depends upon the availability of disposable income and leisure time. Hospitality industry is a multi-dollar industry with hospitality units such as hotel, amusement parks and restaurants. The hospitality units consist of multi groups such as direct operations (housekeepers, kitchen workers, marketing, management, human resources, servers, bartenders and porters etc.) and faculty maintenance. The industry is faced with a number of challenges and issues that needs to be highlighted and discussed. This aim of this essay is to highlight the sustainability issues facing the hospitality sector. The essay entails the basic sustainability definition along with its importance in the hospitality sector. 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