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UNIT 4: ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 155 UNIT 4: EXERCISES 1. GROUP PROJECT Develop and Implement EMS in a hospitality business Ask hotels and restaurants in the region if they would be interested in having a group of students develop an EMS for their business. This will provide a hands-on practical project for several groups of students (5 to 6 students per group), and help local businesses improve environment performance. The first group of students would visit the property, interview the management and employees, and: E X E R C I S E S • Conduct a preliminary environment review (including research on level of compliance, fines and charges, costs of resource use and waste disposal); • Analyse the findings of the review; • Develop an environment policy; • Establish environment objectives and targets; • Develop a baseline environment management programme. A group of students from the next semester could: • Help the business finalise the environment management programme • Implement the programme; • Set up regular performance monitoring practices; • Analyse environment progress. A group of students from the semester after that could: • Carry out an environment audit; • Assess the findings of the audit; • Make recommendations on further improvements, revise targets and objects for continual improvement; • Investigate how to maintain enthusiasm about the environment within the business. 2. GROUP PROJECT Develop an EMS training programme for the management and employees of a small hotel or restaurant in the region. The exercise should involve site visits, a short preliminary environment review and interviews with management and employees. Make a presentation describing the programme. (Managers of the hotel/restaurant could be present during the presentation). 3. GROUP DISCUSSION OR GROUP PROJECT Consider the environment management concepts and tools, cleaner production, eco-efficiency, industrial ecology, and life-cycle analysis. Devise examples of the application of each of these concepts in a hospitality business. Make a presentation of your examples.
156 UNIT 4: ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 4. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT Critically discuss the following statements. Your answer should be about 1,500 words long. ‘Whose responsibility is environment quality? The tourism industry’s, the hospitality business’s, the tourist’s, the supplier’s, or all?’ ‘Tourism and hospitality trade associations can be very effective in promoting EMS in the industry.’ ‘EMS is equally important for small to medium-sized businesses and large companies.’ 5. GROUP PROJECT Develop and carry out an environment status review of your hotel school or the hotel and hospitality department (if it is part of a larger college or university). Based on the findings of the review: • Create an environment policy for the school or department; • Establish environment objectives and targets; • Develop an environment-management checklist. 6. GROUP DISCUSSION OR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT Critically review the following article. Then consider this question: What EMS steps and wider sustainable tourism actions could be taken in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and in Egypt as a whole to improve conservation and environment protection? Many Mummies From The Economist, 31 July-6 August 1999 Egypt has more antiquities and tourists than it can cope with. Stopping the latter from destroying the former is its biggest challenge. Many countries would envy Egypt’s predicament. With the possible exception of Italy, no place in the world contains such a colossal stash of antiquities. Trouble is, Egypt enjoys only a small fraction of Italy’s wealth. Just coping with what has already been found (let alone with the artefacts that keep pouring out of Egypt’s bottomless archaeological motherlode, or with the hordes of tourists who want to see the stuff, or with the constant threat of encroachment on sites) is an increasingly onerous burden on the government and museum authorities. At the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the numbers are awesome. With more than 120,000 ancient objects on display, and even more crammed in the basement, the century-old building is stretched far beyond capacity. Despite costly renovations completed last year, the hall containing the gold of Tutankhamun packs in such a crush of visitors it is beginning to resemble Grand Central Station at rush hour. Over the next decade the numbers are expected to rise from 2m to 8m a year. Controversial plans for a mega-museum have been mooted, but its construction remains a distant prospect. In the field meanwhile, each week produces exciting new finds, creating yet more pressure on bulging storerooms, as well as on the time and budgets of those E X E R C I S E S
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