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Managing Food Waste: What Happens After Food Waste Generation In Hotels?

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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• Sustainability & Environment
Hospitality Management

Abstract

Food Waste (FW) is an issue requiring urgent action throughout the world. FW is still the main concern for the hospitality industry where the exact amount of FW produced in tourism is uncertain. Managing FW includes all actions taken to reduce the amount of waste. It includes waste prevention, recycling, composting, and the purchase of products that have recycled content or produce less waste. This research aims to explore the applied FW management polices after FW generation in three, four, and five-star hotels. A deductive approach and quantitative method research design using questionnaire survey for a sample of food and beverage department managers in three, four, and five-star hotels at Hurghada city were adopted. A total of 88 questionnaire forms were conducted among food and beverage department managers. Descriptive statistics, One-way ANOVA test, and independent sample T-test were used to analyze obtained data. The research revealed that there are many food waste management practices that are applied in many hotels, such as FW monitoring, FW reusing, and FW recycling. The research also showed some barriers faced hotels while managing FW such as the high cost of surplus food segregation, storing, transportation, and handling, concerns about the safety of animal feed, and the high cost of the recycling process. The research provided a set of recommendations to enhance the process of managing FW in hotels.

DOI

10.21608/sis.2021.105411.1025

Keywords

Managing Food Waste, Food Waste Generation, Hotels

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Adel

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Hotel Management Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

Email

mahmoud.atia@mu.edu.eg

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First Name

Abd El-Bary

Last Name

Dawood

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Hotel Management Dep., Faculty of Tourism & Hotels,Minia University, Minia, Egypt

Email

abdelbarydawod@mu.edu.eg

City

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Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Rady

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Hotel Management Dep., Faculty of Tourism & Hotels, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

Email

ahmed.rady@mu.edu.eg

City

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Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abo Taleb

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Hotel Studies Dep., Faculty of Tourism &Hotels,Sadat City University, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

mohammed.aboutaleb@fth.usc.edu.eg

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Volume

3

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

29421

Issue Date

2021-12-01

Receive Date

2021-11-10

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

21

Page End

41

Print ISSN

2682-4329

Online ISSN

2735-3044

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https://sjs.journals.ekb.eg/article_209082.html

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Type Code

1,291

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Tourism, Hotels and Heritage

Publication Link

https://sjs.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Managing Food Waste: What Happens After Food Waste Generation In Hotels?

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023