Hotel Food Waste: A Challenge

The hotel industry is playing a vital role in providing food and facilities for individuals, groups and carrying various business activities. In the present era hotel industry is also helping boost tourism. Thus, a hotel industry is known as one of prominent service industry where food and accommodation is being provided. The researcher has conducted a study of "Hotel Food Waste: A Challenge". The researcher has interviewed 966 customers and 19 hotel authorities on the basis of 144 parameters with stratified, clustered and snowball sampling methods and has drawn 98 findings, 109 applied suggestions, 12 practicable models regarding the study problem and 18 areas for future research is being suggested. It was found that, prepared food waste is created in different stages and food waste is a national waste and negatively affect revenue of hotels. The study is useful to hotel management discipline and it is useful for controlling wastage of food items. The suggestions are given to turn the wastage into alternative food products for birds and animals, for producing bio-gas and fertilizers, etc.