The commitment to eco initiatives by hotels in the City of Cape
Town could not be determined through analysing only a single district.
According to Grace (2001: 1), descriptive research collects
data over a large geographic area by using the two instruments
of measurement which were relevant to this article, namely questionnaires
and interviews. Considering that the sample consisted
of selected hotels situated in the City Centre, the Foreshore and the
Atlantic Seaboard, the population included the entire City of Cape
Town.