The event aimed to help hotels to find solutions and reduce their consumption of energy and water also by showing them they can benefit from such policy. Indeed, they can help preserve the environment (which is also good for marketing) while saving money.
During the presentations, our partners showed tourism has a large impact in worldwide pollution. In fact, the hospitality sector emits 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions (source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2018)!
And tourists are more and more concerned about choosing eco-friendly hotels as they begin to realize how much their way of traveling can make a difference. According to Miscellaneous 2017, 66% of guests are now ready to pay more for a green hotel.