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""As is widely known, sustainability is an important factor in competition, increasing the added value of a company in terms of image and credibility. However, it is important that sustainability assessments are effectively addressed in a global perspective. Therefore, life cycle tools are adopted to evaluate environmental and social impacts. Among these, and of particular significance, appears the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA), which, although in its early stage of development, seems to have extremely promising methodological features. For this reason, it seemed interesting to propose a first application to the tourism sector, which could be better than other methods, studied in terms of social sustainability data. The particular characteristics of service delivery lend themselves more to the development of data related to social sustainability than other sectors. In this paper the results of a case study carried out using social accounting and business management tools are shown.""

"As is well known, sustainability is an important factor in competitiveness, increasing the added value of a company in terms of image and credibility. However, it is important that sustainability assessments are effectively addressed in a global perspective, therefore, next to instruments such as, for example, the LCA, which analyze the environmental impacts throughout the life cycle of a product\/process and service, are adopted tools and approach to evaluate in more detail and also organic sustainable impacts as a strategic tool for management.. Among these, it is particularly significant that the Life Cycle Management, being still in its early stage of development, there is still applied by means globally shared, but presents methodological features extremely promising.. For these reasons, it seemed interesting to propose an application to tourism activities, for the particular characteristics of service delivery, better than others lend themselves to the development of data related to sustainability.. The objective of this work was to analyze the environmental impact of a structure with data derived from the instruments of environmental accounting and business management, as well as to assess the life cycle approach and the impacts of the activities in the accommodation facilities."