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UNIT 4: ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS<br />
4. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
Critically discuss the following statements. Your answer should be about 1,500<br />
words long.<br />
‘Whose responsibility is environment quality? The tourism industry’s, the<br />
hospitality business’s, the tourist’s, the supplier’s, or all?’<br />
‘Tourism and hospitality trade associations can be very effective in promoting EMS<br />
in the industry.’<br />
‘EMS is equally important for small to medium-sized businesses and large<br />
companies.’<br />
5. GROUP PROJECT<br />
Develop and carry out an environment status review of your hotel school or the<br />
hotel and hospitality department (if it is part of a larger college or university).<br />
Based on the findings of the review:<br />
• Create an environment policy for the school or department;<br />
• Establish environment objectives and targets;<br />
• Develop an environment-management checklist.<br />
6. GROUP DISCUSSION OR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
Critically review the following article. Then consider this question:<br />
What EMS steps and wider sustainable tourism actions could be taken in the<br />
Egyptian Museum in Cairo and in Egypt as a whole to improve conservation and<br />
environment protection?<br />
Many Mummies<br />
From The Economist, 31 July-6 August 1999<br />
Egypt has more antiquities and tourists than it can cope with. Stopping the latter<br />
from destroying the former is its biggest challenge.<br />
Many countries would envy Egypt’s predicament. With the possible exception of<br />
Italy, no place in the world contains such a colossal stash of antiquities. Trouble<br />
is, Egypt enjoys only a small fraction of Italy’s wealth. Just coping with what<br />
has already been found (let alone with the artefacts that keep pouring out of<br />
Egypt’s bottomless archaeological motherlode, or with the hordes of tourists who<br />
want to see the stuff, or with the constant threat of encroachment on sites) is an<br />
increasingly onerous burden on the government and museum authorities.<br />
At the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the numbers are awesome. With more than<br />
120,000 ancient objects on display, and even more crammed in the basement, the<br />
century-old building is stretched far beyond capacity. Despite costly renovations<br />
completed last year, the hall containing the gold of Tutankhamun packs in such<br />
a crush of visitors it is beginning to resemble Grand Central Station at rush hour.<br />
Over the next decade the numbers are expected to rise from 2m to 8m a year.<br />
Controversial plans for a mega-museum have been mooted, but its construction<br />
remains a distant prospect.<br />
In the field meanwhile, each week produces exciting new finds, creating yet more<br />
pressure on bulging storerooms, as well as on the time and budgets of those<br />
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