For the ninth consecutive year, the annual Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking research reveals a general decrease in energy and water usage among the participating hotels. The decrease is largely associated with the pandemic which shook the world and granted no exception to the hospitality industry.
Investors, regulatory bodies, industry advocates and guests advance the hotel ESG agenda
Sector’s GDP has grown on average 1.5% annually while greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 1.1% each year
Global tourism body announces verification scheme for Basics - Thousands of hotels, destinations and OTAs support Hotel Sustainability Basics - Inaugural partners include destinations, major international hotel groups and tourist resorts - Research shows almost all hotels are aware of their responsibility to the planet
The result has been achieved in spite of a more stringent analysis which has caused decreases in the overall score of 25% of the more than 10,000 companies analysed.
Criteria include 12 actions which are fundamental to hotel sustainability
The hotel industry's Global Finance Committee has created a way for hoteliers to track their energy and water usage and waste output in a standardized way to create benchmarking metrics for all hotel types.
Barceló Hotel Group, Meliá Hotels International, NH Hotel Group, Radisson Hotel Group, and other leading groups with 25,000 hotels total, launch an initiative to set common definition of hotel sustainability to drive responsible travel & tourism
More than 18,000 hotels contributed information regarding their energy and water usage, as well as their greenhouse gas emissions. Complete as of 2018, the data show that the participating hotels have generally continued to reduce their energy and water usage.