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Energy-Saving Operation Strategy for Hotels Considering the Impact of COVID-19 in the Context of Carbon Neutrality

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  • Yutong Wu

    (Faculty of International Tourism and Management, City University of Macau, Macau 999078, China)

  • Bin Xin

    (Niutech Environment Technology Corporation, Jinan 250022, China)

  • Hongyu Zhu

    (School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

  • Zifei Ye

    (School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

Abstract

With the advent of the post-epidemic era, the energy consumption characteristics of hotels have changed, which has an important impact on urban energy conservation. In order to contribute to the goal of carbon neutrality, this study discusses the energy-saving operation strategy of hotels considering the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic. Based on the energy consumption characteristics of large public buildings, this paper analyzes the energy consumption distribution and operation characteristics of hotel buildings in detail. By collecting energy consumption data from five typical large hotel buildings in a tourist city in southern China from 2018 to 2022, the impact of COVID-19 on hotel energy consumption and hotel business characteristics was discussed in detail. Combined with the economic development characteristic in the post-epidemic era, this paper explores the energy-saving strategies that hotels can adopt in the context of normalized epidemic prevention and control and obtains the optimal path of low-carbon economic operation of hotel buildings. This study reveals the energy consumption characteristics and energy-saving potential of hotel buildings, and provides enlightenment for hotel management and low-carbon development in the post-epidemic era.

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  • Yutong Wu & Bin Xin & Hongyu Zhu & Zifei Ye, 2022. "Energy-Saving Operation Strategy for Hotels Considering the Impact of COVID-19 in the Context of Carbon Neutrality," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-15, November.
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