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Environmental pollution, which begins on a local scale and continues to spread rapidly throughout the world, has become the most important problem of our era. This problem is also important in terms of tourism enterprises as in all. The waste of water, electricity, fuel and hotels, used in large-scale hotel enterprises, leads to environmental deterioration and environmental pollution. The environmental issue in international scale has made it necessary for chain hotel companies operating worldwide to write fields related to environmental practices. This study focuses on environmental protection practices in the European Union, which is the most tourist-accepting region among tourist destinations. In the study, it was attempted to identify what is done within the framework of environmental protection practices (electricity, water and waste) in European-centric chain hotel companies. The research data was obtained by interviews with 13 five-star hotel enterprises with a semi-structured interview form prepared in the literature framework. The data obtained was examined by content analysis. The findings conclude that all the hotel companies participating in the interview pay attention to the environmental savings and waste management. In addition to the issue of savings and waste, one of the topics that the talks criticized and stood on was the source of environmental pollution. Most interlocutors have emphasized that the human factor itself and the unplanned economic activities carried out by humans affect environmental pollution. * This study is produced from the first author's master's thesis.

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