Environmental Sustainability in Finnish Private-owned hostels
Ta, Chi (2018)
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Ta, Chi
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018112618173
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018112618173
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This bachelor thesis aims to discover the hostels in Finland are oriented toward achieving environmental responsibility and viability and how environmental sustainability be in-creased within the private sectors. The commissioner organization for the research is Finn-ish Hostel Association whose network has more than 40 hostels around Finland.
The thesis was planned since June 2018 and result came out in November 2018, including in-depth interviews with 10 private-owned hostels in Finland from different locations. This research also answered to sub-questions in customer behavior and challenging elements for the businesses. The method was used to conduct the thesis is qualitative research and the based criteria for environmental sustainability was Finnish Nature Leagues criteria (Lu-ontto Liito).
According to the author, it is vital to achieve environmental sustainability in the long run for private-owned businesses because in their growing activities, sustainable development as a future for the planet should be the objective of the private sectors, however, they have not yet considered about the issue seriously. The businesses are aiming for more cost-saving products and that will affect negatively to the future by not having specific solutions. There were only few of the hostels have achieved the level of environmental sustainability.
As the outcomes of the thesis, the author’s idea is to improve the hostels in the near future by giving them the solutions to “go green” in different part of the business such as: energy savings methods, water reservation, using eco-labelled cleaning products and waste man-agement, additionally, engaging customer’s awareness. The hostels can use the material to follow the model green hostels that already existed or can follow small step to transform small parts of the business in the near future.
The thesis was planned since June 2018 and result came out in November 2018, including in-depth interviews with 10 private-owned hostels in Finland from different locations. This research also answered to sub-questions in customer behavior and challenging elements for the businesses. The method was used to conduct the thesis is qualitative research and the based criteria for environmental sustainability was Finnish Nature Leagues criteria (Lu-ontto Liito).
According to the author, it is vital to achieve environmental sustainability in the long run for private-owned businesses because in their growing activities, sustainable development as a future for the planet should be the objective of the private sectors, however, they have not yet considered about the issue seriously. The businesses are aiming for more cost-saving products and that will affect negatively to the future by not having specific solutions. There were only few of the hostels have achieved the level of environmental sustainability.
As the outcomes of the thesis, the author’s idea is to improve the hostels in the near future by giving them the solutions to “go green” in different part of the business such as: energy savings methods, water reservation, using eco-labelled cleaning products and waste man-agement, additionally, engaging customer’s awareness. The hostels can use the material to follow the model green hostels that already existed or can follow small step to transform small parts of the business in the near future.