Amidst a successful summer for British sport and tourism, and following speeches from Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt and IOC President Jacques Rogge in support of British hospitality, Hilton Worldwide is stating its intention to support a long lasting sports tourism legacy with this week's opening of landmark hotels at the new home of English football, St George's Park.
For the launch, nearly 2,500 items in good condition, including Louis XVI bedside tables, bronze chandeliers, 1980s wing armchairs, minibar furniture and even safes, will progressively be put on sale at attractive prices, from February 14, 2012. The store will be restocked regularly throughout the year as the Accor hotels are renovated. For the inauguration, the online store will be selling many items from three upscale Paris hotels : Sofitel Arc de Triomphe, Sofitel le Faubourg and Pullman La Défense.
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.
Accor recently decided to assess its environmental impact 15 years after it took a stand and started taking concrete action to embrace sustainable development. This Group started working on gauging its environmental footprint at the end of 2010, to gather a comprehensive corpus of reliable facts in order to step up its strategy on that front. This study is in a class of its own, and stretches beyond measuring greenhouse-gas emissions to encompass energy and water consumption, water pollution and waste generation throughout lifecycles in the Group.
Located in 21 destinations within Switzerland in each of the four Swiss language regions, Swiss Deluxe Hotels (SDH) groups 4500 premium rooms and suites, 9200 beds, and represents 40% of the country’s five-star hotels. SDH employs 4500 staff devoted to maintaining Switzerland’s undisputed reputation as a first-class tourist destination. The statistics are impressive—last year, SDH hotels hosted 800,000 overnight stays.
Two of the UK hospitality industry's most respected specialists in finance and responsible business training have joined forces to offer courses tailored to large and small hospitality businesses on key aspects of 'green' regulation compliance; and quantifying, measuring and tracking environmentally and socially responsible performance.
A group of leading Swedish meeting industry organizations has formed the Swedish chapter of the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC), a global organization that focuses on environmental and sustainability issues in the meetings industry. GMIC, a not for profit organization with members in over 20 countries, has a mission to advance meetings industry innovation through knowledge sharing, education, and research.
As we move firmly into the second decade of the 21st century, the issue of sustainability is no longer just for university campuses and futurologists. It has become a core driver in determining how we manage our hotel businesses. As every country and company is taking a different approach, in this article I'd like to share where the UK is now in terms of encouraging sustainability.
Along the lines of its basic policy on environmental and social actions and within the framework of the Academic Year dedicated to Sustainable Development (SD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is honoured to welcome Mr János Pásztor, Special Adviser on Climate Change to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr Ban Ki-moon. Mr Pásztor will address the EHL students on 20 January 2011.
Green Globe Certification today announced, Hotel Concorde Opéra Paris has won the bid to host the Green Globe 2011 World Summit. Located in the heart of Paris, France, Hotel Concorde Opéra Paris was selected on the strength of its commitment to cultural heritage.
Many hotels around the world offer guests the chance to get closer to nature, but only this one, in the forests of Swedish Lapland, lets them disappear within it. It’s 3am and, rather than sleep, I’m standing watching the early morning sun play on the branches outside my suite – a self-contained, mirror-clad cube, clamped to the trees four metres above ground. I’m utterly isolated, and from the ground outside, the cube is almost invisible. The silence is intoxicating.
Hoteliers can now measure their green impact throughCheck Safety First's new environmental module, an add-on to its existing E-Cristal risk management system. The solution will provide the hotel industry with an independent accreditation of their green policies to avoid accusations of "greenwashing".
The CRC is a mandatory cap-and-trade scheme introduced by the UK government and directed at non-energy intensive, non-transport industries which are not covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) or Defra’s Climate Change Agreements (CCAs).
Milan, one of the most polluted cities in Europe, will open its first zero-emission hotel next spring betting on Japanese technology and local green energy to trim its carbon footprint, the project developers said on Thursday. The new hotel located in the heart of Italy's financial centre will help avoid emitting nearly 420 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year. That may seem a drop in the ocean, but every effort counts in a city with annual CO2 emissions of about 7 million tonnes.
We recently featured the Cavendish Hotel on Jermyn Street as London’s most environmentally-conscious hotel, an accolade granted by the Visit Britain Green Tourism scheme through its much-coveted Gold Award. The hotel has won similar awards including the Icarus Environmental Award and is also a member of the Considerate Hoteliers Association.
The Considerate Hoteliers Association (CHA) is delighted to announce that it has entered into a strategic alliance with BAHA (British Association of Hospitality Accountants) – the organisation for hospitality professionals involved in financial management, revenue management and IT; and the UK’s authoritative voice in the hospitality industry on financial management, technical accounting issues, taxation, and hotel valuation.
Park Plaza Hotels believes that sustainable environmental practices reflect the expectations and desires of its guests, employees, stakeholders and partners in business. Throughout its nearly 40 hotels in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa, the company is committed to finding and implementing ways to mitigate its environmental impact through its TREE (Total Responsibility for Everyone’s Environment) and SEASON (Save Energy and Switch Off Now) initiatives. These focus on responsible water and energy usage and waste management.