The Indicators for Development of Green Supply Chain Management in the Tourism Industry

• Main Authors: Kao, Huichun, 高惠君
• Other Authors: Chen,Chienho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68507911360084737975

碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 旅遊健康研究所 === 99 === In the 21st century, with the rise of international environmental awareness, the country, business and even individuals are all paying attention to environmental issues. Business establish green supply chain management has become a major challenge the trend towards a sustainable.Numerous research has been focused on green aspects of supply chain in manufactures and high tech industry, but the service sector was largely ignored and especially resulted in limited supply chain studies on tour operators. Recently, supply chain becomes a new research agenda and researchers even tried to promote tourism supply chain efficiency and competitiveness through the vertical integration. This study aimed to explore the tourism green supply chain management by defining the sectors, environmental issues, and indicators. Then, a purposive sampling was conducted with expert survey for the tourism industry and academic experts. Finally, the environmental aspects and indicators of tourism green supply chain management were obtained and some suggestions were made for the implementation of a real no-chimney industry. The results showed that tourism green supply chain management of tourism sector are, "food", "accommodation", "transportation", "destination" and " craft producers ", "common items" and " green drivers", Different tourism sector has priority environmental issues, food emphasizes on waste reduction, accommodation is green initiatives, transportation is environmental support, destination is resource development, craft producers is waste reduction, common items is green specifications and green drivers is government environmental regulatory. Environmental issues have different indicators, and it is expect to provide reference and criteria for travel agencies and government authority.