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Hindi Journal of Tourism Research & HospitalityISSN: 2324-8807
Maya Shames Author
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Environmental Impact Assessment, Environment, Society and Environment, Sustainability Management, Cultural Management
Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Biography
Maya Shames is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Paris 13-Sorbonne, she holds a master's degree in sustainable tourism management from the Lebanese University, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management. Her research interests include sustainable tourism, cultural and heritage tourism, tourism management, and landscape management… Has undertaken several studies that have examined the socio-environmental impacts of tourism, cultural landscapes, and the living heritage, rural tourism and tourist demand... Her current Ph.D. thesis aims at improving the sustainable management of cultural heritage tourism in the rural areas of Lebanon.
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Trash Crisis and Solid Waste Management in Lebanon Analyzing Hotels’ Commitment and Guests’ Preferences
Author(s): Socrat Ghadban, Maya Shames and Haifa Abou Mayaleh
Lebanon has witnessed in 2015 a severe trash crisis that had serious health and environmental impacts. Trash crisis has recently evolved, and is mostly related to inefficiency in networking, political leadership, and strategic management system and information flow. Trash crisis can be avoided with effective crisis management plan and waste management strategies. The latter is gaining broader attention, especially in the developing countries, with waste management being not well implemented. Until now, no studies have been conducted to measure and evaluate the impacts of the garbage crisis on the Lebanese tourism industry, which is a main income generator sector. Therefore, this research seeks to examine how tourism organizations, especially hotels as main producer of solid waste, are mana... view more»
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