sustainable development

The expected disappearance of combustion-powered cars by 2035 is already shaking things up in the automotive world. According to Avere-France, the national association for the development of electric mobility, the market share of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles was 18.3 % last year, compared with 15 % in 2021 and just over...

After Bordeaux Tourisme & Congrès, which will receive ISO 20121 certification in 2021, have other event venues in the destination followed your example? Amélie Déchénais - Indeed. All our conference venues are either already certified or have been awarded the label, or are committed to doing so. In 2022, Beam (editor's note: Bordeaux Events & More, formerly...

ISO 20121 certified since January 2020, Châteauform' has long demonstrated its commitment to sustainable events. This commitment has been renewed with the deployment of the LEAD label, an acronym for Label des Evénements à Ambition Durable. Created by SGS, one of the world's leading certification bodies, and promoted by the consultancy firm Green Événements, this...

This is a world first. In Amsterdam, cycling has always been an integral part of everyday life. According to municipal statistics, almost 36% people use bicycles to get around, making some 665,000 journeys every day. And that includes the businessmen who are regularly seen out and about...

The Green Key label is making inroads into the French hotel industry. Driven as much by customer expectations as by their own environmental concerns, more and more hotels are beginning to display this international label, created in Denmark in 1994 and deployed outside France under the name Green Key. The Best Western network...

Modernising their fleets with more fuel-efficient aircraft on the one hand, and supplying SAF, or sustainable aviation fuel, on the other: airlines are currently relying on these two pillars to accelerate their decarbonisation. But the sector has a third lever as part of its energy transition: the advent of a new, more sustainable form of...

Waterfalls, a beach of fine sand, the shade of luxuriant flora: to read the presentation of Pan Pacific's future flagship hotel, you'd think it was set in the heart of a paradise far from the hustle and bustle of busy life. Not at all: it's right in the middle of Singapore, on Orchard Road, the Champs-Elysées of...

A few days after seeing its carbon emission reduction targets validated by the SBTi initiative - i.e. -30% by 2030 - , Air France-KLM is continuing its momentum with the announcement of an order for sustainable aviation fuel from TotalEnergies, adding to previous orders placed at the end of October with Neste and DG...

Air France-KLM is serious in its fight against global warming. The Air France-KLM Group and its airlines are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aviation fuel by 30% per revenue/tonne/kilometre (RTK) by 2030 compared with 2019. This ambition is in line with...

Following on from the SNCF, which recently announced a major photovoltaic electricity purchase contract, the ADP group has just seen the materialisation of an agreement signed in February 2020 with producer Urbasolar and GazelEnergie, an electricity supplier specialising in the aggregation of renewable energies. While the contract provided for the creation of three photovoltaic solar farms, the...

Oil prices have risen by 50% in the space of a year, salaries have been revised upwards in the face of inflation, and the dollar - the sector's currency of exchange - has appreciated by 40% against the euro: like all economic players, the air transport sector is experiencing strong pressure on its production costs. "Faced with...

At COP27, the Radisson Group joined Accor and Iberostar among the leading hotel companies to sign the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. The Declaration, which was presented at COP26 in the Scottish city in 2021, concludes with a commitment to "reduce emissions of greenhouse gases...

The 2022 edition of the GBTA Europe conference was unique in more ways than one. For the first time, the international business travel association devoted an entire day to a new Sustainability Summit, prior to its 'classic' event. It was also the first time that GBTA Europe had gone beyond the German market, the preserve of its...

Following Air France's announcement of a massive order for sustainable aviation fuel, another major player in French business travel, the SNCF, is now unveiling a key investment in responsible energy. The rail company has signed its biggest ever contract for the supply of renewable electricity with Reden. The contract covers...

Following in the footsteps of other airlines which have announced large-scale orders for sustainable aviation fuel in recent months, the Air France-KLM group is now one of the major purchasers of SAF. This "sustainable aviation fuel" is seen as one of the major solutions for decarbonising air transport. Air France-KLM has announced the signing of a...

Has the Avis Budget Group's business in recent months lived up to your expectations? Pierre-Olivier Bard - As soon as the covid restrictions came to an end at the beginning of the year, we were lucky enough to see the return of North American customers from May onwards, which we hadn't had for two years,...

Accor has just launched, with the Women's Foundation, a booking platform dedicated to women victims of violence. Your group has also announced its intention to eliminate single-use plastics by the end of the year and, in the longer term, to achieve zero net emissions by 2050. Accor's commitment to...

The 41st Triennial Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which has just come to a close, can pride itself on having achieved a spectacular objective for the future of the planet... and of aviation. At the end of two weeks of intensive diplomacy by more than 2,500 delegates from 184 States and 57 organisations at the...

British business travellers are getting ready to go back to business, but with a change of habits: this is the message sent by American Express in a new study published on 3 October. A survey of 1,000 professionals in the UK - 500 business travel decision-makers and 500 business travellers - was carried out between 25 and 29 October....

Slow to get off the ground, the production of sustainable aviation fuel is gaining momentum in the face of growing demand from airlines and, above all, the prospect of more stringent regulations on its incorporation into aircraft. With a reduction of 65 % in CO2 emissions compared with paraffin for current fuels and -88 % in...