The last 50 years marked a deep change in the way people travel. The great development of tourism created the necessity of building more and more hotels and accommodations, polluting and wasting much energy. The aim of this research is to understand how the accommodations face the environmental impact of the structure using LEED parameters. The starting point is the analysis based on a survey made on a sample of hotels located in places with opposite climate conditions; the purpose is to understand which strategies the structures adopted in order to adapt to extremely different climate conditions.

Authors: Ivan Alvarez Leon, Elena Elgani, Francesco Scullica