Food waste: Tech supporting Accor¶Hotels
Accor, a global leader in hospitality with more than 5,600 hotels and 10,000 food and beverage (F&B) venues, serving 200 million meals worldwide every year, is leveraging technology tools to reduce food waste.
This massive F&B supply chain represents 17 percent of Accor’s overall carbon footprint, 40 percent of its water usage, and 80 percent of its impact on land use and biodiversity. Accor’s sustainability efforts help minimize this impact. Indeed, Accor encourages its properties to measure their food waste because reduction can only be achieved through precise measurement. To accurately quantify food waste and comply with shared standards, each property is encouraged to measure its waste using Gaïa, an online reporting tool integrated to Accor hotels. This technology-based solution makes it easier for hotels to measure and monitor their energy, water, waste and carbon footprint performance, so that they can accurately track the impact of their sustainability initiatives. To date, 93% of the Group’s affiliate, managed and franchised hotels, spread across +5,600 properties, have adopted this platform to measure their energy and water consumption.
Accor has long been committed to transforming the way it works and to supporting hotels to improve their extra-financial performance and offer guests sustainable and desirable experiences. To go even further, Accor is a committed member of the WRAP EU (ex-International Food Waste Coalition), which is working to define and implement a methodology and targets for measuring and reducing food waste at an industry level. Secondly, it is essential to roll out working, reporting and analysis methods based on a rigorous scientific approach. To achieve this, Accor is now leveraging the latest technological advances in Artificial Intelligence. Thanks to these two levers, the Group aims to exceed its targeted 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.
HYB 2025 Sustainability Tech Edition
The upcoming edition of the Hotel Yearbook, titled "Sustainable Technology for Hospitality," offers essential insights into the transformative role of sustainable technologies within the hospitality industry. Arriving at a critical moment, a decade after the Paris Agreement, this edition emphasizes the growing urgency for intensified sustainable practices. It explores a broad range of themes, including sustainable hotel architecture, energy- saving designs, and nature-based solutions. The yearbook delves into carbon management tools for Scopes 1, 2, and 3, circular economy practices for waste minimization, water conservation techniques, sustainable supply chains, and AI-driven ESG reporting. Additionally, it covers green finance for real estate and addresses implementation challenges across diverse regions. Through a rich compilation of thought-provoking articles, case studies, and expert opinions, this publication serves as a valuable resource for industry leaders, providing the insights, strategies, and forecasts necessary to advance sustainability through innovative technologies. The HYB 2025 edition aims to guide, inspire, and challenge professionals in the hospitality sector to embrace and drive sustainable technology in their operations.