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Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

Regenerative foodservice: from soil health to menu design

Carlos Martin-Rios reframes foodservice as a powerful lever for regeneration, shifting the focus from “less harm” to actively improving soil health, water cycles, biodiversity, and community resilience. He shows how procurement, menu design, pricing, and kitchen operations can be redesigned around regenerative agriculture and outcome-based measurement, turning restaurants and hotels into stewards of living food systems rather than endpoints of an extractive chain.

Carlos Martin-Rios
By Carlos Martin-Rios, Associate Professor of Management, EHL
Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

The Designer's Responsibility in Regenerative Travel

Graeme Labe and Micayla Freeman argue that regenerative hospitality demands a fundamental shift in how designers see their role: from minimising impact to actively strengthening the living systems of place. Through examples from South Africa and Mexico, it shows how context-responsive architecture, local materials, and craft-based renewal can tie guest experience to long-term stewardship rather than one-off “sustainable” gestures.

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By Graeme Labe and Micayla Freeman
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Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

The Circular Prerequisite: Why Regeneration Without Circularity Is Just Greenwashing

Manuel Maqueda argues that “regenerative” hospitality is meaningless – and often pure greenwashing – if it is built on a linear “take–make–waste” model. He outlines a three-step journey from efficiency (doing things right) to circularity (designing out waste and toxicity) to true regeneration (actively restoring ecosystems and communities), warning that you cannot skip the circular step and still claim to heal.

Manuel Maqueda
By Manuel Maqueda, CEO, Bionomia Institute
Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

My journey toward regenerative futures

Martin Hohn reflects on a personal journey from traditional hospitality management toward regeneration, arguing that sustainability has been diluted and cannot succeed as long as infinite economic growth clashes with planetary boundaries. Regeneration is framed not as a technological fix but as a social and mindset shift: a place-based, whole-systems approach that reconnects hospitality with life, community, and ecosystem health.

Martin Hohn
By Martin Hohn, Founder, ATMA.life
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Meliá Hotels International Debuts in Hungary with the Opening of the Hotel President Budapest, Affiliated by Meliá

Meliá Hotels International is set to begin an exciting new chapter in Europe with the incorporation of Hotel President Budapest into its Affiliated by Meliá network from March 23rd, marking the company's debut in Hungary and opening the doors to one of Europe's most magnetic capitals. Nestled in the vibrant heart of Budapest, the 152-room, four-star hotel is perfectly positioned just steps from the Danube, the Parliament and St. Stephen's Basilica, offering an inspiring gateway to the city's cultural pulse.

Affiliated by Meliá
Budapest, Hungary
Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

Regenerative Hospitality leading the way: From possibility to practice

Nicola Gryczka Kirsch argues that regenerative hospitality is no longer an abstract ideal but a lived reality in places like Ibiti Projeto in Brazil, where tourism is designed as infrastructure for land restoration, community vitality, and long-term stewardship. Using the Lausanne Manifesto for Regenerative Hospitality as a compass, it shows how shifting mindsets, systems thinking and co-creation can turn hotels from extractive businesses into catalysts for thriving territories.

Nicola Gryczka Kirsch
By Nicola Gryczka Kirsch, EHL Entrepreneur in Residence and Founder of The Regen Studio, EHL
Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

The Regenerative Question: What Hospitality Must Become

Dr Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner argues that the real shift hospitality needs is not from “sustainability” to “regeneration” as buzzwords, but from short-term optimisation to long-term contribution to ecosystems, communities, culture, and commerce. Regenerative hospitality is framed as a collective, long-horizon practice that embraces complexity, openly navigates trade-offs, uses standards and technology as tools, and puts responsibility and long-term outcomes at the centre of leadership.

Dr. Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner
By Dr. Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner, Executive Director, The Long Run
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A New Dawn: Six Senses marks its London debut with landmark opening at The Whiteley

Six Senses, part of IHG Hotels & Resorts’ Luxury & Lifestyle portfolio, has unveiled its first property in the UK. Breathing new life into the former Whiteley’s department store on Queensway, Six Senses London becomes a cornerstone of the brand’s emerging collection of urban properties which introduce a different rhythm into city life. It follows Six Senses Rome and Six Senses Kyoto, with further openings to follow within the coming years.

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London, United Kingdom
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Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

Regenerative Tourism: Needs Protection

Harold Goodwin warns that “regenerative tourism” is rapidly becoming the next vague sustainability label, used in marketing without standards and ripe for greenwashing. He argues that true regenerative tourism is simply the pinnacle of Responsible Tourism: delivering demonstrable, positive economic, social and environmental impact for residents first, not just better experiences for visitors. 

Harold Goodwin
By Harold Goodwin, Founder, ICRT Global; Professor Emeritus, Manchester Metropolitan University & Senior Fellow, Institute of Place Management, ICRT Global
Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Sustainability Edition

On the peril of wasting a metacrisis

This article warns that tourism has already “wasted” one historic crisis (Covid-19) and is in danger of wasting a much bigger one: the current metacrisis of ecological collapse, geopolitical instability, and social rupture. Anna Pollock argues that mainstream tourism is still clinging to volume-driven, extractive growth and cosmetic “net positive” claims, while true regeneration requires a 100% shift in purpose – from mass industrial tourism to hospitality that helps hospice the dying system and midwife new, life-aligned ways of travelling, hosting and relating to place.

Anna Polock
By Anna Polock, Founder, Conscious.Travel