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The Finnish capital, Helsinki, has taken first place in the Global Destination Sustainability (GDS) Index for the third year running. The figures show that the city's commitment to sustainability is paying off, but the city wants to go further.

With an optional, scalable design concept for the Home2 Suites brand, Hilton is responding to rising operating costs and evolving market demands. The focus centres on all-electric systems, renewable energy, and high energy efficiency.

Climate adaptation in the real estate sector: A study presented at the Extreme Weather Congress in Hamburg highlights differing assessments of climate risks between cities and institutional investors.

For months now, the topic of AI has been dominating the headlines – and this following a record-breaking hot summer and historically low water levels in many lakes and rivers. A new report aims to provide the industry with important insights into the circular economy and demonstrate that circularity in hotels is not only possible but also makes good business sense.

We want sustainability, but… This excuse is heard in many businesses in all sorts of forms. Sometimes it's down to customer preferences; sometimes the effort involved is overestimated. A new toolkit tackles this very issue.

Whilst the majority of property companies now have mechanisms in place to quantify the costs of decarbonisation, far fewer can quantify the risk and costs of inaction. A new open-source tool is now available to address this.

From Poitiers to Germany to the UK, residents left their own homes to book air-conditioned hotel rooms for several nights during the latest heatwave. Searches for rooms with air conditioning and pools surged across OTA platforms.

Sven Wiltink came to HITT in Brussels with something rare: an actual case study. Two renovated hotels, verified to a net zero standard, with a year of operational data behind them. The session that followed was one of the most engaged of the day.

If the heatwaves of the past decade were to recur, a leading credit insurer estimates that Germany could face losses of up to €112.5 billion by 2030.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN World Tourism Organisation have launched the "Recipe of Change" initiative to tackle a global sustainability challenge: food waste.