Being ECO in hotel industry is becoming a must.

And not only due to guests demand or tourism trends, but also by legislation.

After 20 years in international hotel projects, I still must admit that, in Spain, we still have long walk to take in order to meet Paris Agreement (UNFCCC), designed to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.

Beside energy-saving solutions for hotels, reducing plastic in hotels is also a key point to boost sustainability in hospitality. And here is where EcoHotelProjects, company specialized in 360 hotel energy saving solutions, plays a key role.

As F. Zemgkun, expert in sustainability told us, a single 200-room four-star hotel can use about 300,000 pieces of single-use plastic in a month if it is at full-capacity and does not invest in any eco-friendly alternatives, according to calculations. The estimate includes 20,000 plastic water bottles, 49,765 plastic amenities and amenity packages, 216,693 pieces of plastic for food and beverage operations, including plastic wrap, storage bags and latex gloves, and 13,375 plastic bags, which does not even include plastic laundry bags used by third-party services to protect laundered clothing for staff and guests, and bags used by food suppliers,

In August 2019, the MARRIOTT GROUP announced that it will replace most of its hotels’ single-use shampoo, conditioner and bath gel bottles with larger ones by 2020, preventing about 500 million of the tiny plastic bottles from reaching landfills yearly—equivalent to about 770 tonnes of plastic annually and 30 per cent of its current plastic use for amenities. Plastic straws and stirrers are also out, averting the disposal of one billion straws per year.

HILTON INTERNATIONAL has removed plastic straws from its hotel operations, saving over 250 million straws annually; switched from plastic key cards to digital ones at a number of hotels, staving off 40 tonnes of plastic waste so far; and eliminated plastic water bottles from meetings and events at hotels it manages in the Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Promising, but not enough

While many of the major hotel chains have announced measures to reduce their carbon print, the industry as a whole can still do much more.

The Green Lodging Trends Report 2018 surveyed 4,544 hotels in 61 countries, and just 30.7% of them reported that they had eliminated or reduced to an absolute minimum their use of single-use plastic. Another 38.1% said they were making progress in doing so, but only 14.4% said they would accomplish it within a year.

Hotel guests are now

eco-conscious, and they would prefer to change their behaviour to support eco-friendly hotels.

The SIX SENSES GROUP, which operates hotels, spas and resorts globally, has cut out plastic straws and disposable food and beverage containers, and uses glass water bottles instead of plastic ones. It also uses refillable dispensers for shampoo, conditioner and shower gel, and recycles or reuses coffee pods, among other measures.

From EcoHotelProjects we are helping to create workable solutions to boost ECO hotel industry. Do not hesitate to contact me to speak further about Hotel ECO strategies, energy saving and hotel projects.

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Hector De Castro has 19+ years experience making hospitality companies grow in The Caribbean, Europe and Asia. Global EMBA from top IE B-School, BA (Hons) in Legal Trans., Dipl. in Business Admin, Ms in Hotel Management.

PhD cand. in Communication and Hotel Neuromarketing. Entrepreneur and traveller.

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