Tourism development, in one side tourism gives a positive impact for the
economic, but tourism developments also have a negative effect for the
environment. Therefore, it is necessary to safeguard the environment by the hotel,
as one of the supporting elements of tourism development. Besides aiming to
preserve the environment, development of environmentally sustainable tourism
can also be used as a tourism promotion to increase the number of tourists staying
at the hotel. Research on the implementation of environmental protection and
management of the hotel in order to develop tourism in the city of Yogyakarta
aims to find out how the role of hotels in the implementation and management of
environmental protection and to determine the constraints faced by the hotel in the
implementation and management of environmental protection in order to develop
tourism in the City Yogyakarta. As we know, hotel activities can have a negative
impact on the environment because of hotel produce waste, both liquid and solid
wastes in large numbers and are harmful to the environment. Based on these
results, it can be concluded that the implementation of environmental protection
and management of the hotel in order to develop tourism in the city of Yogyakarta
implemented through measures such as energy conservation, efficiency of water
use, maintain air quality within the hotel and the hotel waste, both waste liquid or
waste. Problems faced by the hotel include the high cost of procurement of waste
treatment technologies to be borne by the hotel, bad bureaucracy in the process of
issuing permits for the construction of new hotels and the low awareness by the
hotels guest to the importance of the environment.