A COMPARISON OF SOLID WASTE GENERATION RATE BETWEEN TYPES OF HOTEL IN HOIAN ANCIENT CITY, VIETNAM

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This study presents a comparison of solid waste generation (SWG) from all types of hotels in Hoi An ancient city (HAC), Vietnam. Solid waste from 120 hotels was sampled by random method, described and compared by statistical methods. The result shows that the average SWG rate of the hotel industry in HAC is 2.28 kg.guest-1.day-1 and the mean of SWG rates are statistically significantly different between 5 types of hotels. Particularly, high-scale hotels have the highest SWG rate with 6.29 kg.tourist-1.day-1, while the mid-size hotels and villas generated daily on average 2.69 and 1.34 kg.tourist-1, respectively. However, there are not statistically detectable difference of means of SWG rate from a fair of homestays (0.88 kg.guest-1.day-1) and low-size hotels (0.74 kg.guest-1.day-1).