The Analysis on Carbon Footprint of Catering Products in High-star Hotels during Operation: Based on Investigation Conducted in parts of High-star Hotels in Ji'nan

摘要

Allowing for global warming, low carbonization is the hotels' inevitably choice. Based on investigation conducted among high-star hotels in Ji'nan, this paper calculates the carbon footprint of catering products in these hotels during operation. The conclusions are as following: ①The carbon footprint of catering products in high-star hotels during operation is mainly generated in the direct source of carbon emissions, accounting for over 99%. ②All of the carbon emissions from indirect sources correlate to reception scale. However there is a wide gap among them: according to the carbon emissions per unit of catering product from the consumption of electricity among the six hotels, the highest one is 25 times as the lowest one. ③Among the six hotels, there is a gap on the carbon footprints per unit of catering product, the highest one is 5.56 times as the lowest one.④The higher rank of hotels and the more characteristics of catering products, the more carbon footprints.