Nuances da ética empresarial nas ações ambientalmente sustentáveis de empreendimentos hoteleiros da orla de São Luís‑MA, Brasil

Myrlla Maciel de Melo; David Leonardo Bouças da Silva; Luciana Brandão Ferreira

doi:10.34624/rtd.v3i21/22.12185

Myrlla Maciel de Melo Universidade Federal do Maranhão
David Leonardo Bouças da Silva Universidade Federal do Maranhão
Luciana Brandão Ferreira Universidade Federal do Maranhão

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34624/rtd.v3i21/22.12185

Keywords: Environmental sustainability, Hotels, Environmental management, Ethics, São Luís/Brazil

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the importance of business ethics for hotels of São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, regarding to the achievement of environmental sustainability. The specific objectives are: to develop a conceptual study about environmental sustainability, environmental management system and ethics, to collect data of hotels placed on Sao Luis coast, in order to investigate their concerns about sustainable practices, to suggest actions to encourage the managers’ ethical behavior regarding to the implementation of sustainable actions. The study is qualitative, exploratory and descriptive (Richardson, 1999). The theoretical framework was developed upon the concept of tourism, environmental sustainability, economics and philosophy. Findings revealed a problematic reality within the hotels and the environment, identifying different priorities among the managers investigated for the development of sustainable actions. It was found that the hotels must improve their sustainable concerns, in order to improve their whole as social agents.