Under the theme "High Value Tourism, Low Impact Footprints," AT&RTCM, running February 4-7, will address key issues facing responsible and sustainable travel. On February 6 a buyer-seller mart takes place for companies specialising in adventure and responsible tourism.

The past several decades have seen a growing awareness amongst hoteliers and investors regarding the environmental and social impacts of hotel development and operations – to the extent where sustainability issues have permeated nearly every aspect of the hospitality industry. This has been driven by multiple factors including owners' and operators' desires to reduce operational costs, changing i...

The SRA is the leading UK authority on restaurant-related sustainability, but also works hand in hand with the hospitality industry and sustainability experts to provide up-to-date, practical resources and solutions to all member restaurants. Members (restaurants only) enjoy the economic benefits of greater sustainability and the SRA promotes their activities to diners.

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) just unveiled the twelve finalists for its 2012 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. The awards are one of the highest accolades in the global Travel & Tourism industry and recognise sustainable tourism achievements among businesses and destinations across the full spectrum of the industry.

The hospitality industry has become increasingly aware that environmentally responsible management and sustainable operating practices have a direct and positive impact on a property's bottom line. With energy representing the single fastest-growing operating cost in the hospitality industry – some 3-6% of total facility costs – hotel operators can no longer ignore the need to implement strategic...

The Chinese construction company Broad Group is known for putting up buildings with record speed. How fast? Most recently, the company owned by Xian Min Zhang constructed a 30 story, 183,000-square-foot hotel in 15 days — 360 hours, according to Gizmodo.

After a series of impressive award and prize wins since its European debut, Activeion comes out as finalist in the Sustainability category of IET’s, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Innovation awards 2011. Sponsored by established names such as Withers & Rogers, ABB, Altran praxis, D. Young & Co., Lloyd’s Register, Mathworks, national grid and the National Physics Laboratory, the aw...

In the final installment of interviews on Corporate Social Responsibility programmes at hotel companies, HVS Executive Search speaks with Denis Hennequin, Chairman and CEO of Accor. In an exclusive interview filmed at HVS’s HICSA conference in Mumbai, Hennequin shares, "CSR is not a campaign or a programme, but a consciousness and very much part of the Accor DNA.”

Digrim, an established buying group active in the professional kitchen sector for the hospitality and restaurant businesses in Italy, joined forces with Ristoranti – Imprese del Gusto, a leading Italian food services publication part of the renowned Gruppo 24 Ore Editore, to elect the most innovative and sustainable products. Set against the backdrop of Europe’s largest HoReCa event, HOST 2011, t...

Created in 1991 in Westminster with a founder membership of London’s flagship hotels, Considerate Hoteliers (CHA) was one of the first hotel associations worldwide to impart the message that care for the environment and social responsibility should form a major part of a responsible hotelier’s agenda. Membership is open to hotels and guest houses, from the smallest to the largest and across the g...