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Scenario

You have been appointed as the new general manager for a boutique hotel close to the CBD. The hotel is a 4-star all-suite hotel with 80 rooms, a café, bar, garden courtyard, pool, and sauna.

One of your roles as the general manager is the management of the hotel's physical assets. These responsibilities include energy management, waste management, and purchasing and maintenance of equipment.

The hotel has very few policies and procedures in place relating to asset management. Your job is to make sure the hotel has the correct policies, procedures, and asset management plan in place for the acquisition, maintenance, and replacement of hotel assets.

The owners have agreed to purchase/replace the following items this year:

• 1 x 12-seater bus for airport transfers
• 1 x 24 tray Convotherm Combi oven
• 40 x Sealy Posturepedic queen bed mattresses

To assist you further, this assessment has been divided into two (2) parts:

• Task A - Acquisition, maintenance, and replacement plan, policies, and procedures
• Task B - Asset register, maintenance program, environmental sustainability and purchasing options.

Question

2.4 Environmental sustainability is an important factor for the owners.

A. List and explain the business strategies that you would recommend to the owners to assist the business to maximise the triple bottom line (People, Profit, Planet).

• People: Measures how socially responsible an organization has been.
• Profit: The traditional measure of corporate profit/loss.
• Planet: Measures how environmentally responsible a firm has been.

B. Explain the importance of industry accreditation schemes in the hospitality industry relating to asset sustainability and describe three (3) industry accreditation schemes that the hotel would benefit from joining.

C. Explain your reasoning for choosing these schemes.