Abstract:

Power use has a very important place amongst the service activities which are offered to the customers at accommodation businesses. Within these businesses, getting some of the main necessities such as heating, cooling, ventilating, lightening and cleaning can be counted as some of the main factors that affect power use directly. Doing these kind of activities intensify the power use and increase the costs in these accommodation businesses. Therefore it is necessary to enable renewable energy resources in order to obtain the required energy to provide sustainability to the services at accommodation businesses in a less costly way. There is no need for raw materials in order to get renewable energy resources, the only cost is the first installation costs. Since it is redeemed in a short amount of time, it reveals that these kind of energy resources are budget-friendly and necessary. In this direction, it is more advantageous for the businesses that operate in tourism industry, to invest in renewable energy resources so that they can actualize their activities in a more economical way. Because it will be possible to provide an economical environment by decreasing the service costs in tourism industry in terms of providing sustainability in energy by the use of renewable energy resources. The importance and necessity to increase and popularize the of use of renewable energy resources, especially solar energy, were mentioned in this study. In this respect, it was aimed to evaluate the topic in an economical aspect by doing a situation assessment. Therefore the economical contributions of solar energy investments amongst renewable energy resources to the sustainability of tourism were revealed in order to actualize one of the main goals of sustainable tourism that is providing efficient and low cost energy use. In this direction, a set of suggestions were made in terms of the economical contributions of solar energy if it is used in an effective way by the accommodation businesses.

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