Sustainable Site Assessment: A way to Sustainable Hospitality in Egypt

Tourism being a major sector of the Egyptian economy and with the increasing awareness of humanity's negative effect on the planet, the shift towards sustainability became a must. Egypt being blessed with a variety of sites, the research focuses on developing a tool for sustainable sites assessment for hotels to reduce negative impacts on the environment; maximize social and economic benefits for the local community. The research was based on an inductive approach through studying sustainable sites in different International Certification Systems. As a result, an excel sheet for site assessment for hotels is developed that could locally be applied.