{"id":178219,"date":"2024-07-17T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=178219"},"modified":"2024-07-17T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:43:18","slug":"advanced-csr-hotel-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/advanced-csr-hotel-groups","title":{"rendered":"CSR: progress reports from a number of hotel groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks, hotel groups have taken it in turns to present their progress in the area of eco-responsibility. In its Serve 360 report - named after the platform that guides the group's CSR efforts - Marriott outlined progress made<\/strong> by the Group in recent months. For example, it has passed the mark of 7,000 electric vehicle chargers installed in more than 1,800 establishments around the world, its purchases of 56.13 % of free-range eggs and its support for the liberation of around 110,000 sea turtles. Other actions include fundraising, volunteering, employing refugees and raising awareness of human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American group also welcomed the verification, last April, of its short- and medium-term emissions reduction targets set by the European Union. the Science Based Targets initiative <\/strong>(SBTi). As part of this, Marriott has launched a climate action programme in all its managed and franchised establishments worldwide, focusing on the development of reduction targets specific to each establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a time when more and more companies are demanding eco-responsibility in their travel policies, the world's leading hotel group's commitment to a more sustainable hotel industry is clearly no exception. IHG Hotels & Resorts has just launched its Low Carbon Pioneers programme, distinguishing its low-carbon hotels<\/strong>They do not burn fossil fuels on site, and rely on renewable energies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among these \"pioneers\", the Kimpton BEM Budapest<\/a> just opened, the Holiday Inn Express at Madrid airport and the Iberostar Waves Cristina resort in Spain. These are all model hotels, certified as eco-responsible, which will be brought to pull the rest of the network behind them<\/strong> of the British group by encouraging other establishments - and their owners - to join the programme while sharing their good practice and know-how in reducing carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For its part, Accor was able to congratulate itself on having taken a symbolic step in June with its 1000e<\/sup> eco-certified hotel<\/strong>. This brings the French group a step closer to its target of having 30% of its hotels certified by the end of the year and 100 % of its worldwide network labelled by 2026. At the same time, in the run-up to the Paralympic Games, the French group has stated that 380 hotels in France have already been or will be awarded the 'Tourism and Disability' label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n