We are just back from the Independent Hotel Show Amsterdam where I hosted a panel on Sustainability Data: Who Cares Wins. It was a great discussion. You can read the summary below and hear what the experts had to say about strategy, operations and the challenges hotels face when collecting, reporting and improving on their sustainability data. There can't be any losers – everyone needs to win.
Today also saw the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) appointing SilverDoor’s Pauline Houston as the first chairperson of its newly formed WINiT EMEA Chapter. Houston will focus on building a community in EMEA for women in the business travel industry, driving initiatives that foster sustainability, inclusion and gender equity, to help all women within the industry thrive in their careers.
Iberostar has released its latest impact report Wave of Change – the Mallorcan group is a world leader in sustainability and achieved a global reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions of 12 per cent last year compared to 2019. In the EMEA region the reduction was as high as 32 per cent.
We also share how IHG is installing more EV chargers in its properties across the US and Canada to help guests arriving in electric vehicles and in other news the hotel group has partnered with Just a Drop to support safe water projects in Cambodia and Kenya.
Until next time,
Felicity Cousins
Editor, Sustainable Hotel News
Image courtesy of Iberostar
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Sustainable Hotel News editor, Felicity Cousins moderated a panel on Sustainability Data: Who Cares Wins, at the Independent Hotel Show in Amsterdam this week.
The discussion was split into three segments: strategy, operations and challenges and the panelists had 45 minutes to discuss how and why sustainability data should be used, collected and reported across the hotel industry.
Panellists were Bryan Orkyansky, head of sustainability Studio Moren, Sarah Whiting channel solution lead Thrust Carbon, Jo Geneen principal consultant Good&Co and Thijs Koster co-founder of the Green Hotel Club.
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Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) has appointed SilverDoor’s Pauline Houston as the first chairperson of its newly formed WINiT EMEA Chapter.
SilverDoor’s senior vice president of business development is the first chair for the newly formed WINiT EMEA Chapter, an extension of GBTA’s WINiT the non-profit organisation, which provides support, training and advice to help guide career development within the business travel, meetings, events industries.
WINiT EMEA Chapter will work to build a community in EMEA for women in the business travel industry and will focus on funding and driving initiatives that foster sustainability, inclusion and gender equity, to help all women within the industry thrive in their careers.
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IHG Hotels & Resorts has partnered with EnviroSpark, an electrical vehicle (EV) charging solution company to supply its hotels across the US and Canada.
The partnership means EV chargers will be available to all IHG-branded hotels across the United States and Canada further expanding the availability of charging units at the group’s hotels – currently 1,100 hotels have the chargers globally.
IHG has also added an EV-charger search filter on the IHG One Rewards mobile app to help travellers find the best place to stay and the group is supporting its hotel owners by giving them an EV charging guide with best practices to encourage installation.
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Iberostar Hotels & Resorts has published its 2023 Year in Review, detailing efforts made through its responsible tourism movement Wave of Change.
The report covers the five key pillars of circular economy, blue foods, nature-based solutions, climate action and destination stewardship.
The Mallorcan group, which operates more than 100 hotels across 16 countries, achieved a global reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions of 12 per cent last year compared to 2019. In the EMEA region the reduction was as high as 32 per cent.
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Just a Drop and IHG Hotels & Resorts have come together support safe water projects in Kenya and Cambodia, in a pilot at five voco hotels around the world.
The ‘Water for All’ initiative, allows guests to donate money to fund safe water and sanitation projects and the pilot, which began on March 8th, will be in place across the globe at voco Oxford Thames, UK; voco Reading, UK; voco Johannesburg Rosebank, South Africa; voco Orchard Singapore; and voco Kirkton Park Hunter Valley, Australia.
The partnership with Just a Drop is in alignment with voco hotels’ provision of free filtered water in hotel guestrooms.
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A new hotel booking platform, A’ARU Collective, has launched promising to “change the way luxury travellers book environmental and socially responsible travel”.
The platform is being headed up by Kelly Forbes who has previously worked with luxury hotel brands including Kempinski and The Leela.
To be considered for the platform properties must meet a minimum of three of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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Sustainable hotel portfolio Beyond Green has added seven new members in countries including Colombia, India, Ireland, Spain and Zimbabwe.
Beyond Green was launched by Preferred Travel Group in 2021 as a sister brand to Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide, and now comprises more than 30 properties across 20 countries.
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Nobu Hotel London Portman Square has achieved Booking.com’s Travel Sustainable Level 3 rating.
The hotel, which is part of the Nobu Hotel Group, says it achieved this level of sustainability after appointing a sustainability management and ESG reporting platform, FuturePlus.
According to the platform the hotel has made significant steps towards improving its sustainable operations, including working to eliminate single-use plastics from its rooms, using water-efficient taps and showers, reducing food waste and using 100 per cent renewable electricity.
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Sustainable Hotel News editor, Felicity Cousins moderated a panel on Sustainability Data: Who Cares Wins, at the Independent Hotel Show in Amsterdam this week.
The discussion was split into three segments: strategy, operations and challenges and the panelists had 45 minutes to discuss how and why sustainability data should be used, collected and reported across the hotel industry.
Panellists were Bryan Orkyansky, head of sustainability Studio Moren, Sarah Whiting channel solution lead Thrust Carbon, Jo Geneen principal consultant Good&Co and Thijs Koster co-founder of the Green Hotel Club.
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