Harmonizing business practices of events and convention industry through sustainability assessment framework development

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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The global event and convention industry is singlehandedly one of the largest and most lucrative sectors in business forecasting market size projected at approximately more than two trillion U.S. dollars by 2028. Despite being a significant contributor to global economic growth, the event and convention industry faces a pressing environmental challenge due to its substantial carbon footprint. Current practices in the industry inadequately address sustainability concerns, leading to a critical gap in integrating environmental considerations into core business models. The lack of sustainability considerations contributes to climate degradation and undermines the industry's long-term success and resilience. This observation signifies the need for a more systematic trajectory toward total decarbonization of the industry through the implementation of sustainable practices across its value chain. This work aims to develop a conceptual framework of sustainability assessment for a case study in the event and convention sector integrating two indicators: greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. The result identified a critical gap in current practices regarding the insufficient integration of sustainability assessment into the core financial business models of firms. The authors propose a new approach to address this by integrating economic impact analysis through the employment of the Return of Sustainability Investments – discovered as the most effective sustainability economic impact assessment method in this study. To facilitate optimized implementation, a multilevel strategy framework enabling the adoption of a sustainability assessment is presented in this paper. This paper contributes to improved execution of sustainability assessments, where the framework can be applied in heterogeneous sectors.
通过制定可持续发展评估框架协调活动和会议业的业务做法
据预测,到 2028 年,全球会展业的市场规模将超过两万亿美元。尽管活动和会议业对全球经济增长做出了重大贡献,但由于其巨大的碳足迹,该行业面临着紧迫的环境挑战。该行业目前的做法未能充分解决可持续发展问题,导致在将环境因素纳入核心业务模式方面存在重大差距。缺乏可持续发展方面的考虑会导致气候退化,并损害该行业的长期成功和复原力。这一观察结果表明,有必要通过在整个价值链中实施可持续发展实践,以更系统的方式实现该行业的全面去碳化。这项工作旨在为活动和会议行业的一项案例研究开发一个可持续发展评估概念框架,其中整合了两个指标:温室气体排放和能源消耗。研究结果发现,目前的实践中存在一个重要的缺陷,即没有将可持续发展评估充分纳入企业的核心财务商业模式。作者提出了一种新的方法来解决这一问题,即通过使用可持续发展投资回报率来整合经济影响分析,这是本研究中发现的最有效的可持续发展经济影响评估方法。为促进优化实施,本文提出了一个可采用可持续性评估的多层次战略框架。本文有助于改进可持续性评估的执行,该框架可应用于不同部门。
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Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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