A United Nations global assessment of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes clear the important role that tourism must play in achieving the ambitious agenda for change.
Infrastructures for sustainable mobility are relevant for the hospitality sector (e.g. car charging stations; bicycle parking stations). Nevertheless, the level of detail of the proposal is unproportionate. Subsidiary should prevail. In addition, specific financing instruments and incentives should be foreseen especially for SMEs.
Today, IHG Hotels & Resorts announces a global collaboration with consumer goods company Unilever to replace bathroom miniatures with bulk amenities in over 4,000 hotels.
Accor places Corporate Social Responsibility at the heart of its overall strategy. As such, the Group commits to utilizing employee’s talents and capabilities to realize a contributive approach toward promoting sustainable and socially conscious initiatives.
Climate Change Has Become Part of Discussing Business Travel
Report highlights progress and achievements in Climate action, Healthy spaces and Inclusive places
The company announced at IMEX Frankfurt (the international trade fair for the MICE industry) a pioneering initiative that will allow the carbon footprint of events in its hotels to be measured, reduced and offset. This is a fundamental step in moving towards carbon neutrality, responding to a need that is increasingly in demand among professionals in the MICE industry.
The pandemic did many bad things to the hospitality industry and its related organizations. One of the organizations that suffered the most was Clean the World, the Orlando, Fla. based nonprofit that is dependent on donations of soap, amenity bottles, financial support, and volunteers to keep its mission rolling.
Criteria include 12 actions which are fundamental to hotel sustainability
Many travelers now require higher levels of transparency from companies in terms of their environmental performance, with GlobalData’s poll finding that almost 75% of global consumers agreed that the introduction of sustainability labels on products should be mandatory.
PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore, owned by Pan Pacific Hotels Group, has established its position as Singapore's first 'Garden-in-a-Hotel' with over 2,400 plants and trees spread across 15,000 square feet of space in the hotel.
Sustainability leaders from across the travel industry will advise on GBTA program initiatives and help drive business travel awareness and change for climate action and beyond
Amid one of its most transformative periods in history, the U.S. lodging industry has an opportunity to enact real change through a renewed commitment to sustainability. As the world looks to reduce its carbon emissions, hotels play an important role as they are the most energy- and water-intensive of any commercial building type globally.
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.
The travel industry must stare the reality of its high carbon footprint in the face and stop pretending it can be offset.
The hotel industry's Global Finance Committee has created a way for hoteliers to track their energy and water usage and waste output in a standardized way to create benchmarking metrics for all hotel types.
Barceló Hotel Group, Meliá Hotels International, NH Hotel Group, Radisson Hotel Group, and other leading groups with 25,000 hotels total, launch an initiative to set common definition of hotel sustainability to drive responsible travel & tourism
Atout France, Consell de Formentera, and VisitScotland sign up to The UNESCO Pledge showing the unique connections The UNESCO Pledge creates to power a sustainable travel ecosystem
Major new initiative will set the path for businesses in their quest to net zero
Hotels and other accommodations have a long and costly road to achieving net zero by 2050, according to a report. The EY Parthenon and Booking.com study estimates that the accommodation segment will have to invest €768 billion to achieve net zero in the timeframe.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), which represents the global Travel & Tourism private sector, has joined forces with governments, Travel & Tourism organisations and businesses around the world in support of the Glasgow Declaration, a global initiative to tackle climate crisis.
COP26 could be a huge turning point for the role of sustainability in tourism, says GlobalData. The data and analytics company notes that the tourism industry is in an unprecedented recovery process, and with many private sector companies now committing to more transparent actions around reducing emissions, more tangible results around sustainability could be seen during the next decade.
As world political leaders meet at the COP26 Summit, in a quest to find common ground on climate change, a report finds access and cost are preventing consumers from making sustainable travel choices.
Mark Tanzer says tourism’s challenge is to balance the benefits and the costs
Having obliterated the travel world for nearly two years, the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022 will no longer be the primary risk to business travellers, nor the principal duty of care concern for travel managers.