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The stakeholders' views and opinions are important in the process of developing the environmental policy in the businesses. Depending on the developments that have taken place, environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) have become one of the important stakeholders of the businesses and have begun to have a say in environmental practices and environmental policies of them. Examining the relationship and interaction between these organizations and the accommodation establishments are important for new start-ups in terms of developing environmental policies. In this study, the effects of environmental nongovernmental organizations on environmental policies of chain hotels were investigated. The data were gathered by implementing a face-to-face questionnaire to the middle and senior managers of 156 chain hotels operating in Turkey. Ordinal logistic regression was used for the analysis of the data and 4 models were designed for this purpose. Findings of the research indicate that the relationship and interaction of chain hotels with ENGOs play an important role on environmental policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]