Australia-Irish pioneering sustainability company, WISE Sustainability, has taken home the Gold award in the international Responsible Tourism Awards, recognised for its innovative software solutions that help hotels, resorts, and extended-stay apartment brands advance their environmental performance. Competing in the highly competitive Climate Change category, WISE Sustainability stood out among strong contenders from North America, Europe, […]
AI has been nowhere near this article. Fundamental change is now occurring across the world in company sustainability compliance reporting. Right now, managers are scrambling to understand the new directive and fathom how to comply. In this article however, I propose that this is the opportunity many hospitality businesses have been seeking, a way to […]
The Australian Government’s new mandatory reporting requirements are rolling out across
the country, effective from July 2024, but many countries including the UK, USA, and those in
the EU are already under pressure from their governments…
Extreme weather events are not abstract, faraway issues. They are in the here and now, with devastating effects on health, wellbeing, and the economy. Although a global trend, in many ways Australia is bearing the brunt. We’re the canary in the coal mine. We all experienced the devastation of bushfires last year (not for the first time) and according to the Climate Council extreme weather could soon be costing the country’s economy $100 billion a year.
Implementing conserving resource strategies is proving to be a sound approach to reducing carbon emissions and costs. The International Centre for Responsible Tourism – Australia has submitted its 2019 activity report to the One Planet initiative run by United Nations Environment Programme. The following summarises the report for 2019 highlighting several key successes and learnings. […]
So since 2007 we have marched on and increased the overshoot date by 12 days and the predictions of increasing effects from Climate Change are now apparent in the UK with hotter summers.
Savings that are early ‘low hanging fruit’ hid the challenges on longer time savings Christopher Warren, Progamme Director, My Green Butler Tourist accommodation has three primary focus areas for resource management: design & technology, management practices and customer behaviour. Design & technology and management practices have been the primary area of activity with only low […]