Staying Green: Hotels Step Up Their Sustainability Initiatives - Scientific American - 1 views
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Those little cards may seem like token environmentalism, but they can actually result in significant water, waste and cost reductions.
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The website Economically Sound reports that a 150-room hotel can conserve 72,000 gallons of water and 480 gallons of laundry soap every year by placing the cards in its guest rooms.
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he Marriott chain reported saving as much as 17 percent in hot water and sewer costs at its hotels thanks to implementation of its Linen Reuse Program.
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This article discusses the negative aspects of cloud-based software.The hospitality industry found the software to be expensive and lacked the functionality that was expected from the software. What seems to be taking the place of cloud software are business software environments, which the author refers to as a eco-system of vendors. SAP Cloud platform HANA is the center of one of these eco-systems. Another eco-system that is discussed in this article is the one around salesforce.com and last but not least the Microsoft Office Environment. The author concludes his argument by saying although there is no hotel industry eco-system, cloud-based hotel software will not resurface as an eco-system.
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This article talks about how hotels/hotel chains as well as organizations help to go green. They for instance mention the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) who tries to improve the quality of tourism by promoting greener "habits". They for instance try to be proactive in regard to reducing carbon emissions - in this regard they launched the Hotel Carbon Measurements Initiative with the International Tourism Partnership (ITP) and 12 international major hotel chains including Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt to name a few, to reduce the carbon footprints hotels produce.