The paper is based on the work carried out by the authors during the SRI project. The data created constitutes the core of the Accommodation Services sector in the ecoinvent database.
The highlights of the paper are:
- Treatment of solid waste accounts for 12–61% of the life cycle carbon impacts.
- Building accounts for 8–69% of the life cycle carbon impacts.
- Energy consumption accounts for 3–56% of the life cycle carbon impacts.
- Consumer goods account for 10–25% of the life cycle carbon impacts.
- Building, solid waste and consumer goods should all be included in future environmental assessments of hotels.
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