Alongside Accor joining the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) last year, the Group announced that two additional global partnerships have been signed with Green Key and Green Globe, both partners having their standards recognized by GSTC.
This article showcases real life examples of hotel businesses that are taking steps to contribute towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and meeting the targets by the Paris Agreement. Businesses and governments need to take action to meet the challenges we all face. We have highlighted seven hotels below where owners and operators are taking these challenges seriously and are finding ways for their businesses to be part of a solution which embraces hospitality and nature.
The two hospitality leaders join forces to drive innovative development methods in the hotel industry
There’s just one Earth, and it is currently in a triple emergency according to the United Nations. Here’s the part your hotel can play in bringing a change.
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.
The concept of sustainability has been around for decades, popularized by the First World Climate Conference in 1979, the inception of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993, and the publication of Vice President Al Gore’s book about climate change (An Inconvenient Truth) in 2006. While other building types were early to adopt this concept, hospitality seemed slow to embrace green building design. Today, hospitality design is making noticeable changes to catch up.