Hotel building design, occupants' health and performance in response to COVID 19

Deepak Bangwal; Jyotsana Suyal; Rupesh Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103212

Hotel building design, occupants' health and performance in response to COVID 19

Int J Hosp Manag. 2022 May:103:103212. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103212. Epub 2022 Apr 5.

Authors

Deepak Bangwal¹, Jyotsana Suyal², Rupesh Kumar¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Energy acres, UPES, Kandoli, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248007, India.
² UIPS, Uttranchal University, Prem Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248007, India.

Abstract

In the COVID-19 pandemic, the employee realized the importance of a healthy workplace. A healthy workplace provides natural protection against respiratory disease and reduces exposure to viruses. Therefore, the current COVID-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call to understand the importance of building design and a dress rehearsal for future challenges because building-based prevention and control measures have become one of the most significant ways of fighting against the epidemic. This study investigates the role of hotel building design in employee health and performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study covered the LEED-certified hotel building in India. The formulated Hypothesis was tested empirically by the structural equation modeling (SEM) for determining the potential of the hotel building design. It was obtained from the study that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the hotel building design of the hospitality industry had a more significant influence on employee performance, followed by employee health.

Keywords: Employee performance; Hotel building design; Mental & physical health.