Research On The Energy-saving Mechanism Of Tianjin Star-rated Hotels Based On Stakeholders Theory

The energy crisis in 1973 exacerbated the energy crisis awareness of the oil-importingcountries that launched a variety of energy-saving laws and policies to provide protection forthe development of national and world economic. As the United Nations Conference onEnvironment and Development proposed to improve the energy efficiency and protect theglobal environment in 1992, it marked the international energy-saving had entered a newstage of development. Energy-saving has become the world’s eternal theme with the excessivedependence on energy for the economic and the warming global climate. High energyconsumption and low level of profit have become the most prominent problems for thestar-rated hotels’operation in the context of rising energy prices. In order to low theiroperation cost, improve their economic efficiency and overall competitiveness, and to reduceenvironment pollution, energy-saving has become the inevitable choice.Firstly, this paper describes the inadequacy of the current research on the star-ratedhotels energy-saving based on the analysis of related literature of the domestic andinternational hotel industry: paying more attention on the energy-saving technologyapplications, and lacking of analysis of the star-rated hotels’current energy-saving situationfrom the management and strategy angle. Thus this paper proposes the conception on buildingthe energy-saving mechanism of Tianjin star-rated hotels with the stakeholders.Secondly, this paper sums up the stakeholders having close relationship with theenergy-saving of the star-rated hotels, and analyses the drive factors of the stakeholders andthe current energy-saving situation of Tianjin star-rated hotels. And then this paper builds thetheoretical model of energy-saving mechanism of the star-rated hotels drawing on theoperating mechanism with obvious energy-saving effect in the industry and construction.Once again, this paper constructs mechanism model and theoretical research assumptionto illuminate the energy-saving mechanism can improve the energy-saving performance andthe competitiveness, and processes the survey data from Tianjin star-rated hotels on the use ofStructural Equation Model software SPSS17.0 and LISERL8.70. The result shows that theenergy-saving management, economy and market environment have a positive impact onimproving the energy-saving performance and overall competitiveness of Tianjin star-ratedhotels. Therefore, the energy-saving mechanism constructed by this paper can help Tianjinstar-rated hotels enhance their energy-saving performance and overall competitiveness.Finally, this paper proposes countermeasures and suggestions for promoting theenergy-saving application and popularization from improving the energy-saving management,economic environment and market environment.