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Hilton and the Hilton Global Foundation Announce Notable Year of Progress Towards 2030 Travel With Purpose Goals
Hilton | May 23, 2024
Hilton, a leading hospitality company, and the Hilton Global Foundation, Hilton’s philanthropic arm, announced today the latest progress towards their shared goal of creating a better world for travel with the release of the 2023 Hilton Global Foundation Impact Report and the 2023 Hilton Travel with Purpose Report. Hilton’s Travel with Purpose Report outlines the hospitality leader’s progress towards its Travel with Purpose environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy to drive responsible travel globally. Travel with Purpose outlines Hilton’s 2030 energy, water and waste reduction targets as well as community engagem...
The Future of Hospitality Is Green: How Hotels Can Lead in a Climate-Conscious World
Tim Weiss | February 16, 2024
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How to Address AI’s Energy Demands? AI Can Help With That
JLL | August 4, 2023
Sustainability efforts are putting the focus on data centers Generative AI technologies that can turn simple phrases into stunning, photo-realistic images have sparked the world’s imagination. They also require a substantial amount of energy. Researchers estimate that running one generative AI algorithm requires up to five times more energy than a regular search engine query. Just training ChatGPT took the same amount of energy as driving 123 combustion vehicles for one year. With AI queries on the rise – openai.com alone pulled in 1.9 billion visits in May 2023, according to SimilarWeb – the boost in energy requirements matt...
Sustainable Business Travel: Our Partnership for a Greener Future
Jack Mahan | July 5, 2023
By Jack Mahan, Rod Clough, Janet Ott At HVS, we take sustainability seriously. It is an important topic for us as a firm and also for the hospitality industry as a whole. As consultants to hotels and hotel operators, we spend much time traveling to meet our clients and conducting site inspections at hospitality properties across the country and globe. Travel is an essential component of what we do as a firm. More broadly, business travel represents nearly one-fifth of all global travel. In 2019, U.S. residents alone took more than 460 million business trips, according to Sustainable Travel International. Unfortunately, business travel al...
Saving the Planet, One Hotel at a Time
PolyU’s School of Hotel and Tourism Management | June 28, 2022
Despite the urgent need to reduce global carbon emissions, the hotel industry faces numerous barriers to implementing carbon reduction programmes. Why is it so difficult for hotels to reduce their carbon footprint, and why do so many hotel managers remain bystanders in the fight against global warming? To help answer these questions, Dr Eric Chan of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University conducted in-depth interviews with senior hotel executives in Hong Kong. The findings provide novel insights into barriers to carbon reduction by hotels and – perhaps most importantly – strategies to over...
