Tag: sustainability
Three Hotel Sustainability Innovators of 2018
A multi-faceted industry, there are more opportunities in hospitality to innovate, disrupt, and generally shake things up than in other business arenas. Innovating is...
How Carbon Lighthouse Profitably Reduces the Carbon Footprint of Commercial Real Estate
Brenden Millstein, CEO and co-founder of Carbon Lighthouse, is undeniably a smart guy. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard and an...
Putting the Value in Value Engineering
Hotel construction and renovation can be a daunting task. Whether an owner has been through it once, twice, or has not yet crossed that...
A Smaller Footprint: Sourcing and Disposing Sustainable Furniture
Furnishings are major investment for hoteliers, but as Susan Inglis, executive director of the Sustainable Furnishings Council, told LODGING, when they are not sustainable,...
IHG to Remove Plastic Straws and Move Toward Bulk Bathroom Amenities
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) has announced plans to remove plastic straws from its more than 5,400 hotels worldwide by the end of 2019. Plastic...