Hospitality Industry’s Green Program Set by The American Hotel & Lodging Association
To engage the traveling public and its members, the American Hotel & Lodging Association recently began several initiatives to get people involved in the efforts to make the hospitality industry more environmentally friendly. These initiatives include the Green Partner Program, Green Tips for Travelers and GreenQuest tracking system.
Green Partners sponsor American Hotel and Lodging Association events by donating $1 per attendee. In turn, that number of trees are planted. When the programs launched last month more than 800 trees were planted in Chicago following the AH&LA Summer Summit.
GreenQuest is an energy and water usage tracking system that helps hotel owners and management lower utility expenses. This is a free web-based service that can assist properties in improving their rating and also help them track progress throughout the Green Guidelines Challenge. This challenge is open for submissions until October 1, 2009.
Green Tips for Travelers is designed to help hospitality properties encourage their guests to make their stay eco-friendly by implementing 8 tips that can be found at the AH&LA site at www.ahla.com/green.aspx. The entire project is designed to make both the hospitality industry property owners and travelers become more environmentally aware, and to make improvements toward that end.
