Hotelier India recently posted a poll asking its readers how difficult they thought it was to implement ‘green’ practices in a hotel without upsetting existing budgets?
The poll saw netizens expressing their opinions with an overwhelming 86% feeling that it was indeed very easy to implement ‘green’ practices in a hotel as all it required was just some basic managing skills and common sense.
This has been very evident at the Courtyard by Marriott which has a companywide ECHO programme (Environmentally Conscious Hospitality Operations) in place to provide guidance in five key areas: Water and energy conservation, clean air initiatives, waste management, clean-up campaigns and wildlife preservation.
Similarly the Heritage Madurai takes its leftover food and sends it to a local piggery farm. Efforts like these are on the rise in a number of hotels across India.
Reports show that so far big luxury hotels have been taking the lead in the going-green endeavour. But the benefits and long term savings that can be made by making small changes is luring budget hotels to also start thinking in green.
Though, around 7% of hoteliers thought it was impossible to go green without toppling the entire budget, another 7% felt that enough research was not being done in the field.
