Excerpt from CoStar
Hotel companies, individual hotels and businesses outside of the hospitality industry have raised their environmental and sustainability priorities, but now some of that responsibility is being pushed to individual employees.
Paul Proctor, vice president, commercial, Europe for IHG Hotels & Resorts, said individuals are growing more thoughtful on sustainability as governments and countries prioritize initiatives to reduce emissions or commit more resources to renewable energy. This, in turn, has caused a change in the way procurers and companies think about travel and hotel selection.
Proctor said companies taking a lead in this have adopted programs that go much further in terms of personal responsibility for carbon footprints.
“One corporate procurer I spoke to recently has instigated in their company a more stringent approach — hotels, flights and car [rental] are displayed by their carbon use," Proctor said. "The traveler is then given a carbon budget for the year, and once it is consumed, then no more travel is allowed.
“In a post-pandemic environment where we are already more thoughtful about the purpose and return on investment of travel, this adds another layer in to the decision-making process for the traveler,” he said.
Proctor said by scrutinizing carbon footprints in travel budgets, one of the first questions that companies and their employees will ask is: Is this trip truly worth it?
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