Sustainability in the Hotel & Hospitality Sector - Planning for Today

"Green" Awards open for applications

Pakman Awards - ENTER HERE - A Pakman Award is one of the highest accolades any organisation, company, community, group or individual in Ireland can achieve.  There are 14 Awards - hospitality businesses might be interested in the following...Food Waste Management/Minimisation, Plastic Pledge Member of the Year, Waste Prevention Business Award, etc.  

Irish Hospitality Institute - Management Awards 2019 - NOMINATE HERE - The IHI Hospitality Management Awards is a prestigious annual event that recognises the contribution to the Industry by Hospitality Professionals.  By nominating your manager/s or colleague you will be recognising their commitment and professionalism to industry and affording them the opportunity to receive one of these distinguished accolades.  The sustainability award available is the Hospitality Manager of the Year - Environmental & Facilities.

Chambers Ireland CSR Awards 2019 Shortlist (SEE HERE)
Congratulations to Hotel Doolin and the Cork International Hotel who have been shortlisted in the 2019 Awards - against substantial competition.  These are but two of our members who are fully committed to embedding sustainability as a core business strategy. Dalata were also shortlisted. Good luck to them at the awards ceremony on the 19th September. 

Crowe Ireland Hotel Survey   
The 2019 Hotel Survey noted that Utility Costs grew by 7.7% - the first cost-over-revenue increase in utilities since 2012.  Summary Here.
With water charges rising from 2020, see below, and increasing carbon taxes it is even more important now for businesses to take control of their energy and start monitoring and managing it properly.  Green Hospitality notes that hotels can typically reduce energy costs by between 20-50%.  Ask yourself - who is actually responsible for your utility costs?  Generally everyone is because everyone uses energy. Find out how to change this and make individual managers responsible. Contact Green Hospitality for support.

Plastic Smart - a GREENMark  
Are you serious about minimising single use plastics?  Or are you more interested in the PR message when you remove plastic straws?  We have a wide-ranging programme that addresses this scourge with the objective to eliminate single use consumer facing plastics from your business.  If you want to make a real difference join up now.  More info here 

Water Charges to increase by up to 100% from May 2020
The CRU announced recently that they had approved a new tariff structure for commercial water charges.  All hotels in Ireland and many Restaurants and Pubs will see substantial increases in annual costs - from 5% to 100%.  If any GHP member wants to know what the new charges will be email us.  For those hardest hit a 4 year phase in will apply - do you know how hard this will impact your bottom line?

Green Check - Certification Checklist  
Green Hospitality has launched a certification checklist excel based workbook that enables members track their route towards certification - our aim is to provide this as an online service in due course.  The new checklist will be rolled out to members over the coming months.  If any member wants one now just email us at info@greenhospitality.ie

Services and more Sustainability Information

Clean the World - A CSR Programme for Single Use Toiletries
CTW collects single use toiletries (Soaps and liquids) from hotels around the world, separates the parts, recycles the plastics and up-cycles the liquids and soaps for humanitarian uses - a circular economy programme.  This internationally recognised CSR programme was launched in Ireland by Green Hospitality and saw its first 10 members join in 2018 with up to 25 more due to join in 2019 - If you want to be a Recognised Socially Responsible hotel become a Clean the World member. More info here

GREENClean - Chemical Free Cleaning - cutting costs by 50%
GREENClean is our revolutionary cleaning chemical replacement system that can cut your cleaning chemical costs by 50% plus.  Trial offer available. Safe, Powerful, Kind to the Planet, Kind to your Guests, Kind to your Employees. More info here  

Compliance - Waste Packaging Regulations
We would urge all hospitality businesses - especially hotels (c.40% non-compliant) - to become compliant with the Packaging Waste Regulations.  By joining Repak your legal obligations will be satisfied - by remaining non-compliant you leave yourself open to prosecution and fines - be sensible - be compliant - Find out more and Join Here

Support our Green Suppliers
Check out the new sustainable fuel from Calor - BioGas LPG 
Before you plan any project have a look at our Green Business Directory - listing here  

Green Hospitality Programme Developments
As part of our services we are constantly listening to our members and clients and will develop services and supports designed to assist them in delivering smarter solutions - some of our current projects include;
- GREENMark - Eco-friendly businesses - this has been developed for smaller hospitality businesses to enable them to promote their sustainability actions and commitment
- GREENFootprint - our energy and water consumption monitoring service - "If you don't measure it, you cannot manage it"
- GREENLight - Our Light as a Service (LAAS) programme - zero capital investment lighting upgrades to LED
- GREENEnergy - bringing independent hotels together to secure lower electricity rates whilst buying Green Electricity and reducing carbon footprints.
If any of these interest you drop us an email identifying which one and we will get back to you on our progress.

Latest News - Keep an eye on our news page in GreenHospitality.ie for the latest sustainable news - click here 

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