Data for: Criteria for Assessing a Sustainable Hotel Business

Due to the potential negative environmental, cultural, and social impacts of tourism, hotels have responsibilities to act in a sustainable manner. The objective of this research was to identify criteria against which they can measure their impacts. The paper reports the findings of a workshop involving industry and academic personnel who validated 66 possible criteria, which were then tested using a sample 177 experts selected from the hotel industry and academia. Using R, a confirmatory factorial analysis found five dimensions based on 40 criteria, distributed as follows: environmental (11), social (10), cultural (4), economic (8), and political (7) dimensions, and a hierarchical order was established. It is suggested that these have managerial implications.