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Boutiquehotel Stadthalle: a unique passive house hotel
Boutiquehotel Stadthalle added a passive house for zero energy Boutiquehotel Stadthalle in Vienna was the winner of the Green Hotelier Award 2015 in Europe. Here hotel director Claudia Plot talks us...
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Talking Point: ESG reporting in travel & tourism
Using ESG reporting to inform your audience Last month we looked at how – and why – to communicate your sustainability programmes to your guests and other stakeholders. Here, Olivia Ruggles-Brise,...
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Novotel Blackfriars: Sustainability in central London
The Novotel Blackfriars brings sustainable practice to central London City hotels aren’t always the first properties that spring to mind when you think of sustainability but Arnaud Herrmann, VP...
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Talking Point: How good staff communication brings best customer experience
Hosts at Soneva ready to welcome guests Green Hotelier has been raising issues of good employment practice and labour rights issues, and one of the key elements of this is ensuring employees have...
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Talking Point: The Brazilian water crisis – it’s time to act
Brazil needs an urgent programme of good water management. ITP Regional Co-ordinator for the Youth Career Initiative in Latin America Priscila Costa highlights the ongoing water issues in Brazil and...
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Talking Point: Hotels can support indigenous tourism
An Aboriginal guide describes his cultural history Responsible tourism writer Jeremy Smith works with hotels and destinations to help them tell their responsible tourism stories. He recently visited...
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Talking Point: How can hotels reduce energy but not customer satisfaction?
Hotels can use tech analysis to monitor energy consumption Ankur Thareja, Senior Consultant and Thanakarthik Kumar Karuppasamy, Consultant for Energy Solutions, Wipro EcoEnergy ask how can hotels cut...
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Talking Point: Creating opportunities for women
The Gourmet Mums forum will help create opportunities for women Chris Corbin and Jeremy King of the Corbin & King group of hotels and restaurants realised there was both a shortage of trained,...
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Talking Point: What price to pay for sustainability?
What energy improvements should hoteliers get funded? Charles Ogilvie, director at energy services project developer Joule Funding, explains the steps hoteliers can take to negate the upfront costs...
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Talking Point: #StayWithPurpose
Simple things can have big impacts This month in Green Hotelier we’ve been looking at the many and varied ways that hotels can help to have a net positive impact on their immediate – and wider –...
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Hotels as Change Agents in 2030 Districts
Starwood HQ in Stamford In today’s Talking Point Joyce Lee and Megan Saunders describe how US hotels can be part of the 2030 Districts Project and help to create more sustainable cities. What are 2030...
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Talking Point: Can SME hoteliers also tackle climate change?
Hotel Floyd: a small business sustainable hotel With big business and governments making climate change commitments at COP21 and small businesses battling extreme weather flooding in the UK and India,...
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Talking Point: Fake fir for Christmas?
Christmas in Las Vegas Use your artificial tree for ten Christmases or burn your real tree on the bonfire - Paul Cawsey, Sustainability Manager in Mitie’s Landscaping business discusses the pros and...
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hub by Premier Inn: sustainable design in the city centre
hub by Premier Inn at St Martin's Lane, London Although it had been open just a few months when Green Hotelier closed the 2015 Awards, we had to give hub by Premier Inn at Covent Garden a special...
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Talking Point: Hotels and the open water market
Can you control your water costs? In the UK, water provision to companies is about to become a free market. Here, Claire Yeates, Director at Waterscan says the move could help hotels but only if they...
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Talking Point: Can hoteliers help combat the negative effects of increased...
Can hoteliers combat the effect of air travel? Mathew Jackson Roberts of CP Renewables suggests that hotels can boost responsible tourism and mitigate air travel by reducing their own carbon emissions....
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Talking Point – Young lives should matter to hoteliers
Youth Career Initiative graduation ceremony in Mumbai ITP’s Youth Career Initiative programme has been running for many years now and continues to grow from strength to strength. With funding from key...
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How apprenticeship schemes can help address social justice
Premier Inn apprentice Stuart Mapplebeck February 20th marks World Day for Social Justice. The UN says “We advance social justice when we remove barriers that people face because of gender, age, race,...
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Age is no barrier to happiness and success at Heart of the Lakes
Paddy recently marked 23 years of service. Green Hotelier recently discussed issues of social equality and inclusion in the hospitality industry. In this Talking Point, Heart of the Lakes owner Sue...
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Talking Point: Where does water sit in the battle between CSR and profit?
Can hotels find new ways to reduce their water consumption? It’s World Water Day tomorrow. In this Talking Point, Stephen Charles, Managing Director of Vivreau argues that for many hoteliers, reducing...
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