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Sustainability Reporting: Possible Ways of Rethinking Hospitality Accounting

The concept of sustainability reporting has emerged from developments in accounting, with roots over a period of the last forty years in a broader sense and in the narrow sense over the last ten years. While the term sustainability accounting is used to describe accounting methods that aim to create and provide high quality information to support a corporation in its movement towards sustainability, sustainability reporting, describes new formalized means of communication, which provides information about corporate sustainability. Sustainability accounting is a framework that can be used to reflect economic, social and environmental impacts and demonstrate their connection. In order to get an idea of whether sustainability reporting has been implemented in Croatian companies, the purpose of the paper is to investigate the achieved level of sustainability reporting in Croatia. The paper will also critically review previous research results about sustainability reporting in the hospitality industry and develop a framework for hotel sustainability reporting, in accordance with the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry – USALI (11th edition, 2014), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the new EU Directive about disclosure of non- financial and diversity information.

sustainability reporting; hospitality accounting; sustainability accounting; USALI; GRI

The Book is open access and double-blind peer reviewed. The Book is regulary indexed and abstracted by ProQuest and EconBIZ databases. It is available for downloading in a PDF format from the Economic and Social Development Conference website, http://www.esd- conference.com ; Prezentacija rezultata istraživanja na projektu CrossBench Benchmarking hrvatskog i slovenskog hotelijerstva: Instrument za povećanje konkurentnosti i razvoja poduzetništva (Europska teritorijalna suradnja, Operativni program Slovenija-Hrvatska 2007 - 2013., br. 4300-113/2012-SVLR)