Where should you look to make big energy savings at your hotel? Your first area to focus on is the energy used to heat/cool your guest rooms and public areas. This will most likely represent 60% of your total energy consumption. In this article we will demonstrate how much is wasted and how you can […]
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…
The Budget announcements of the 9th of May see the Australian government allocating billions of dollars to new and existing renewable and sustainability tech, research, and investments to reduce businesses carbon emissions. Several agencies…
It’s easy to get swept up in the promise of technology. It gives us something to fall back on. However much of a mess humanity makes, we can rest easy. Surely efficiency and innovation will save the day in the end, right? On their own, no. I believe in technology, but it is only as a force for good insofar as we choose to make it so.
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.
There is a great deal of expectation that data can help deliver more sustainable hospitality, but is it relevant, is it fully used? Firms can be awash with data as they monitor food waste, reservations, energy, revenue and comfort levels, to name a few, but do managers and staff have time to study its implications?
Guest Participation offers you exciting opportunities to design innovative new more sustainable hospitality experiences which are low or zero carbon. I hope you…
7 Steps to communicate your sustainability practices without greenwashing Dr Christopher Warren We are, I am sure, all familiar with the term greenwashing (first coined by Jay Westerveld of Greenpeace in 1986 in frustration to hotel towel re-use initiatives), and its reporting by many journalists, including at length by Tom Robbins (2008)1. But has its […]
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. […]