Combining travel, hotel stays, meeting space and food & beverage carbon consumption information for corporate events, it provides detailed environmental impact insights to both CWT event planners and clients alike.
Behold the hotel of the future: It’s plastic bottle-free, anti-fossil fuel, and powered entirely by renewable energy. A renovation project, it gives new life to existing structures of concrete and steel, and reuses door frames, light fixtures, and even tile.
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 travel industry must stare the reality of its high carbon footprint in the face and stop pretending it can be offset.
More companies are now looking to take tangible steps towards cutting carbon
New design techniques and building materials are helping to cut embodied carbon
In the hospitality industry, information is becoming stagnant, unreliable in many cases, and hard to find in an organized manner. Information and knowledge should always be accessible and organized; they should empower, inspire, educate, and cultivate. When it comes to accurate, organized, unbiased, and accessible information, the hospitality industry lags behind. Thus, the birth of TalkHotels - the first professional and social network for hoteliers.
UNWTO and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand have officially concluded a project to help hotels along the Thai Andaman coast significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs through energy-saving technologies.
Pineapple Hospitality kicks off the New Year with discounts on popular lines of hotel amenity products.
Measuring energy consumption, the carbon footprint and providing sustainable investment possibilities are the key components of an E-toolkit which could have a path-breaking impact on the tourism sector, helping hotels reduce their carbon footprint while increasing business profits. The Hotel Energy Solutions (HES) E-toolkit will be presented at the second annual HES Conference, ‘An Innovative Energy Toolkit for Hotels’ during the International Tourism trade fair FITUR 2011 (Madrid, Spain, 20 January 2011).