Abstract
The tourist sector, despite the present severe constraints imposed by the sanitary emergence, can be considered as an important component of almost all countries’ economies. In Italy agriturism, in particular, has been experiences a continuously rising trend in recent years. Clearly, such great interest towards these businesses also calls for a deep attention by an energy point of view, in sight of an energy efficiency improvement, hence a lowering of the pressure that such facilities exert to the natural environment. On the other hand, the European Union has been engaged, for a long time, in awarding the tourist accommodations environmental excellence brands, like the EU Ecolabel. Unfortunately, the achievement of such excellence brands requires the capability of managing complex energy and environmental data, which is often not the prerogative of people running such facilities. In order of contributing to overcome this difficulty, and with the aim of helping the addressing of agritourism towards a Nearly Zero Energy path, we propose here a simple approach that does not require the modelling and simulation of the energy behaviour of an agritourism, being essentially based on the application of easy-to-use ARERA (Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment) datasheets scheme. On purpose, an application of the method, involving two typical Sicilian agritourism, is presented. The obtained results showed the viability of the proposed methodology, although the need of an update and/or replacement of some technical datasheets arose.
Highlights
In order of contributing to overcome this difficulty, and with the aim of helping the addressing of agritourism towards a Nearly Zero Energy path, we propose here a simple approach that does not require the modelling and simulation of the energy behaviour of an agritourism, being essentially based on the application of easy-to-use ARERA (Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment) datasheets scheme
In order of contributing to overcome this difficulty, we propose here a simple approach that does not require the modelling and simulation of the energy behaviour of an agritourism, being essentially based on the application of easy-to-use datasheets, that is the ARERA (Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment) scheme [30] originally issued for the urban residential building stock, which allow the assessment of the energy and the environmental benefits related to the implementation of energy efficiency interventions on a given premise
Regarding the parameters to insert in equation (1), since ARERA imposes a limit on the UFR size, it was chosen to set a value of 19.9 kW as peak power of the system, in order to make the most of the proposed intervention potential; while, the heq suggested value for the province of Palermo results, being 1852 h/year
Summary
In recent years much effort has been put, at global [11, 12], European [13, 14] and national [15] level, into implementing a series of energy and environmental policies in order to achieve a more sustainable tourism [16, 17]. In Italy, in particular, tourism’s positive growth trend is even more evident; in the year 2017, the tourism sector accounted for a share of 13.2% of the total domestic GDP, which reflected in 14.9% share of the country’s total employment [18], representing one of the fastest growing industry in the country. Public and private business organizations, both at national and regional level, are strongly interested in tourism’s economic and environmental impact [19, 20]
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