Socrat Ghadban Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Tourism , Marketing, Applied Economics, Sustainable Tourism, Cultural Tourism
Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Socrat Ghadban currently works at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Lebanese University. He does research in Qualitative Social Research, Quantitative Social Research, Economics and Marketing. Their current project is 'Rural tourism in Lebanon.'
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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»