Eco-Friendly Practices: Deeper Shades of Green in Hospitality - Hospitality Sustainable... - 0 views
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The company replaced its signature quilted bedspreads with unquilted coverlets. The new coverlets minimize washing and drying time, thereby conserving energy. New window treatments have increased energy efficiency. The all-new design also incorporates wood-effect flooring made from unused industry scraps, fluorescent light bulbs in all rooms, low flow shower heads, high efficiency toilets, and high efficiency heating and air-conditioning units.
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Greening through the Supply Chain and Purchasing Sustainable purchasing practices vary widely, but there is a growing industry movement to become more sustainable through strategic selection of products and services.
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Some view sustainability through the performances of recycling programs, energy efficiency, water conservation, or waste minimization, others through the lens of corporate social responsibility.
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This article is talking about current situation of how green concepts influences hospitality industry. Become more and more green and sustainable is the goal of many hotels, they've tried to achieve the goal through many ways in recent years. The hospitality industry is recognizing the compelling need to adopt sustainable operating practices for the sake of efficiency, cost savings and green building requirements. And also they are considering whether green can drive greater returns. Corporate travel executives set the rewards to encourage sustainable purchasing by reward. In fact, different people have different opinions of "green". Mostly, hostels chose to become more sustainable through strategic selection of products and services. Such as they use the conserving energy coverlets, shower, window, toilet and so on. Besides, hospitality managers want a consistent guidelines and performance targets to be used by purchase influencers and decision makers to make solutions for cost saving more effective. Now there are more and more people realize this concept and there already has a preliminary guideline for prioritizing actionable, practical solutions to achieve long-term growth of having a "green forest in hospitality".