sustainable hotels
Sustainable Hotel Management: Trends Hoteliers Should Know in 2021
Natacha Reymond | February 24, 2021
Along with the pandemic and associated health and economic concerns, climate change is driving the world’s agenda. Business leaders everywhere are wrestling with how to respond to rising public and political pressure and align their systems and operations with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, established to keep global warming below 2°C and ideally 1.5°C. None more so than for hotels, that means reducing their emissions by 90 percent by 2050. Let’s take a look at what sustainable hotel management means in 2021. Why sustainable management matters for hotels Along with hotels, the transportation and food and beverage industrie...
Sustainable Hotels: Learnings from Designing a Carbon-Positive Hotel
the authors | December 19, 2019
With over 60% of consumers world-wide worried about climate change, the notion of sustainability has become more pressing than ever. Designing a Carbon-Positive Hotel – Challenges From Single-Use Plastic Ban to Carbon-Neutrality: what practices should be embraced by sustainable hotels While working on the assignment of designing a climate positive hotel, we conducted research about the biggest carbon emitters and challenges of hotels. Our research concluded that greenwashing is one the biggest issues the industry is facing. Greenwashing is the act of companies trying to attract the growing green market through false public relations ...
