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Responsible hospitality – how to offer luxury without the guilt
Sustainable luxury is not an oxymoron. It can be found throughout some of the UK's leading hotels, but today it is more about the basics than the bling. Emily Manson reports on a new, carefully considered approach to business
Posted: 17 May 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Accor aims for 10% CO2 emissions reduction by 2015
Hotel group Accor has announced plans to reduce its worldwide CO2 emissions by 10% by 2015, even as the company continues with its plans to grow by around 40,000 rooms each year. Those were the proposals laid out in its new sustainability programme, Planet 21, launched this morning.
Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Perthshire hotels join forces to film green credentials
A group of competing hotels in Perthshire have come together to produce a film showcasing the area's environmental tourism credentials to audiences throughout the UK and overseas. The film features Perthshire's Green Resorts group working together to exchange ideas and promote sustainability.
Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Ascott launches green scheme
Serviced apartments firm Ascott has pledged to achieve 15% savings in water and energy consumption by 2015 as part of its 'Go Green @ Ascott' scheme. Ascott has implemented and will continue to roll out sustainable initiatives across its offices and properties worldwide...
Posted: 29 Mar 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Considerate Hotel of the Year Awards deadline extended
The deadline for the Considerate Hotel of the Year Awards 2011/12 has been extended to 18 April. Accommodation providers at every level - bed and breakfast operations, guesthouses, pubs, inns and restaurants with rooms...
Posted: 28 Mar 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
UK businesses could save £400m through boiler efficiencies
More than £400m could be saved by UK businesses by improving the efficiency of their hot water boilers, according to new guidance published by the Carbon Trust today. Simple, low cost measures could see heating costs cut by as much as 30%.
Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Accor's global hotel estate consumes same energy as mid-sized city
The entire Accor hotel chain across the world consumes the same energy as a mid-sized city, an environmental footprint report has revealed. The report, the first of its kind for an international hotel chain, comes ahead of Accor's new sustainable development strategy.
Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
SRA announces national awards
Ode in Shaldon, Devon, has been named the UK's most sustainable restaurant by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). The SRA's inaugural national awards, announced at London's Cinnamon Club today, recognised restaurants across seven categories covering all aspects of sustainability.
Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Dartmoor pub becomes first in Devon to win gold Green Tourism Business Scheme award
A pub on Dartmoor has become the first in Devon to win a gold award from the Green Tourism Business Scheme. The Pack Horse, which dates back to the 14th century and is owned by Admiral Taverns, previously won a silver award in 2009...
Posted: 24 Nov 2011 | FULL ARTICLE
Sustainable Restaurant Association to launch national awards in 2012
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) is set to launch its first national awards scheme next year. The National Sustainability Awards, which will be announced on 23 January, will recognise restaurants across seven categories...
Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | FULL ARTICLE
Carbon Trust launches scheme to help businesses reduce energy costs
The Carbon Trust has launched a new business to help UK firms reduce their energy costs and install greener, more efficient technology. The Carbon...
Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | FULL ARTICLE
Caterer and Hotelkeeper launches Responsible Hospitality channel
Catererandhotelkeeper.com has launched a new channel centred around responsible hospitality. The Responsible Hospitality channel helps you, the operator and supplier, to ensure that trading responsibly is at the heart of your business practice.
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | FULL ARTICLE
100% Recycled Maxima Green Toilet Rolls
Go green in your home or office, with a bulk purchase of Maxima Green recycled toilet tissue. Buying recycled toilet tissue makes excellent sense - it's better for the environment whilst still being soft and strong.
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | FULL ARTICLE
Take six: green machines
Corporate social responsibility policies, spiralling utility bills and the uncertain economic climate are spurring more and more businesses to invest in greener machines. Product Zone discovers the benefits environmentally friendly equipment has brought to six operators.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
Coworth Park opens with luxury green credentials
Guests at Coworth Park - the Dorchester Collection's new country property in Berkshire - can enjoy a luxury experience, with a minimal impact upon the environment. Janet Harmer checked out the green credentials of one of the UK's most significant hotel openings of the year
Posted: 30 Sep 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
Whitbread to spend £7m on sustainability
Whitbread is to spend over £7m on a sustainability programme to boost the environmental performance of its hotels, restaurants and coffee shops. The investment will focus on reducing the company's carbon emissions and water consumption by introducing a package of efficiency measures to Whitbread's current estate
Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
CESA guide: waste management
Waste management is increasingly becoming a major issue in food service operations. Following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth in 2001, the feeding of catering waste to livestock was banned, so operators have had to sort out alternative arrangements.
Posted: 12 Feb 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
Hospitality firms waste £6b a year through ‘resource inefficiency’
Hospitality businesses are wasting more than £6.4b per year by overlooking simple money-saving actions, according to a new campaign launched today by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). Defra is urging the catering and hospitality trade to reap the financial benefits ...
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
October update: The Mulberry Tree - sustainability
There are many things companies can do to lessen their impact upon the environment. This month, we look at what our six businesses are doing to help the planet
Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
The Scarlet hotel - glad to be green
It's been touted as the greenest hotel in the country, but the Scarlet in Cornwall just wanted to reconcile luxury and conscience. Gemma Sharkey reports.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
30 ways to save the planet
Keen to be green, but worried it could harm your bank balance? Have no fear... here are 30 ways to run your business sustainably - that will cost you nothing.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
London on Tap launches carafe to promote tap water
London On Tap, the campaign promoting the capital's tap water, today launched the carafe it hopes to roll out across London’s bars, hotels and restaurants. The campaign, which was launched by Thames Water and the Mayor of London last year, aims ...
Posted: 19 May 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Savoy to turn leftover food into electricity
The Savoy has claimed it will be the “most environmentally responsible hotel in London” when it re-opens later this year.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Water Efficiency Awards deadline extended
The Environment Agency has extended the deadline for entries for the 2009 Water Efficiency Awards by a month.
Posted: 31 Mar 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Belu makes £600k loss but still backs clean water projects
Belu, the bottled water company that operates on a promise that all profits go to clean water projects, made a loss of more than £600,000 in 2007, newly-published accounts reveal.
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | FULL ARTICLE