This thesis aimed to examine the situation of waste management problems encountered by small hotels by focusing on investigating the causes of waste generation and on reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering the waste in order to minimize the waste to be finally disposed of by means of incineration/landfill, which is appropriate based on the prioritization of zero waste management. There were three research questions: (1) what are the factors in the zero waste management of small hotels? (2) What is the best practice in the zero waste ...