Worldwide: Lodge illustration firm HotelREZ has partnered with sustainability consultancy Greengage Options to introduce its ECOSmart certification to member properties.
Below the partnership, ECOsmart certification will now be out there for all HotelREZ properties.
The certification is accessible in bronze, silver, gold, or platinum ranges. Awards are accompanied by info on how the lodge qualifies, together with particulars reminiscent of carbon footprint per evening and the provision of sustainable facilities like EV charging factors.
Accommodations’ sustainability credentials will even be displayed on GDS platforms, the REZMedia picture device, in addition to HotelREZ’s shopper website Finest Beloved Accommodations.
“Bookings are more and more pushed by a requirement for sustainable journey choices,” mentioned Daniel Simmons, CCO of HotelREZ. “This collaboration not solely empowers our properties to satisfy these expectations but additionally aligns with our mission to help the planet and businesses necessities with their most well-liked international lodging companions.
“Greengage’s ECOsmart answer was the clear selection for serving to motels navigate and maximise alternatives on this sustainably focussed market. This certification helps motels to safe further enterprise by interesting to the sustainability wants of the patron, businesses and company bookers – to satisfy the necessities of the company duty programmes resulting in extra inclusion and company bookings and loyalty. As we speak – sustainability is a necessity, not a luxurious,” he added.
Andrew Perolls, CEO of Greengage Options, mentioned: “HotelREZ is a trusted identify within the trade, and their know-how simplifies the certification course of for hoteliers. By means of this partnership, we are able to lengthen the ECOsmart framework to hundreds of impartial motels throughout the UK and Europe, making sustainable hospitality extra accessible than ever.”