According to Global Business Travel Association's 2023 report, The State of Climate Action in Business Travel, sustainability is becoming a key consideration in corporate travel programs and measuring emissions is a major responsibility of travel buyers.
Combining travel, hotel stays, meeting space and food & beverage carbon consumption information for corporate events, it provides detailed environmental impact insights to both CWT event planners and clients alike.
Behold the hotel of the future: It’s plastic bottle-free, anti-fossil fuel, and powered entirely by renewable energy. A renovation project, it gives new life to existing structures of concrete and steel, and reuses door frames, light fixtures, and even tile.
The company announced at IMEX Frankfurt (the international trade fair for the MICE industry) a pioneering initiative that will allow the carbon footprint of events in its hotels to be measured, reduced and offset. This is a fundamental step in moving towards carbon neutrality, responding to a need that is increasingly in demand among professionals in the MICE industry.
The travel industry must stare the reality of its high carbon footprint in the face and stop pretending it can be offset.
More companies are now looking to take tangible steps towards cutting carbon
New design techniques and building materials are helping to cut embodied carbon
In the hospitality industry, information is becoming stagnant, unreliable in many cases, and hard to find in an organized manner. Information and knowledge should always be accessible and organized; they should empower, inspire, educate, and cultivate. When it comes to accurate, organized, unbiased, and accessible information, the hospitality industry lags behind. Thus, the birth of TalkHotels - the first professional and social network for hoteliers.
UNWTO and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand have officially concluded a project to help hotels along the Thai Andaman coast significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs through energy-saving technologies.
Pineapple Hospitality kicks off the New Year with discounts on popular lines of hotel amenity products.