| Green Travel News |
Travelocity will add hundreds of luxury Hilton properties to its green hotel directory. All have been validated by Hilton’s sustainability measurement system, LightStay. Travelocity’s “eco-friendly hotel” leaf tag is being given to 300+ Hilton properties worldwide, each of which has made significant strides toward sustainability.
Hilton and its portfolio of 10 hotel brands recently became the first major multi-brand hospitality company to make sustainability a brand standard. LightStay is a proprietary system that measures energy and water use and waste and carbon output at Hilton hotels globally. Additionally, LightStay analyzes performance across 200 operational practices, such as housekeeping, paper-product usage, food waste, chemical storage, air quality and transportation.
Hilton commissioned KEMA-Registered Quality, Inc. — a management systems assessment and certification company — to perform a series of 3rd-party audits of LightStay to confirm its validity and effective implementation.
Working with a well regarded group of certification programs, Travelocity has flagged more than 2,200 hotels across the globe as eco-friendly. To be included, a hotel must be certified as meeting Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria and have an on-site audit. The criteria, which offers a comprehensive picture of what it means to be sustainable, was developed by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, a global coalition of U.N. bodies, research and academic institutions, social and environmental NGOs, and certification programs.
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