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Munich. The cost pressures that bear down on hoteliers' shoulders is great. Digital tools help, but the input initially required is substantial. Best example from hotel construction: BIM, Building Information Modeling. An Expo Real discussion illustrated the opportunities this tool provides. And it will also pay off in the long run - especially for hotel groups willing to expand with a feeling for standardisation.
Augsburg. Guests' desire for more sustainability is having an increasing impact on tourism. In focus today: Google wants to label sustainable hotels / Accor develops autonomous cars / Green power at Citadines / Radisson cooperates with Too Good To Go / Changing user behaviour on mobility issues / Accor rejoins sustainable network platform / Marriott plans net-zero emissions / Roadmap for the climate / Sustainability as an educational institution / Travelperk buys sustainability consultancy / Four Seasons bouquet of eco measures / A lot goes a long way fast: European Climate Foundation.
Vienna. How do accommodation providers find their way to a greener future? "Green hotels", one trend report says, even appeal in times drastic employee shortages.
Munich. Wesley Paul, Executive Chairman and Founder of Gemin-i Analytics, London, opened the 4th HospitalityInside Think Tank a week and a half ago with an inspiring speech and quickly set the tone for the audience: "This is the decade to act". He gave an outlook on the next ten years, on what we are seeing across the world, not just in terms of the pandemic but across trends and issues as well as their impact on sustainability and on sustainable hospitality. For himself, he said, "it was without a doubt the most difficult forecasting period ever to analyse."
Munich. Will the "Carbon Footprint per Available Room" become the new benchmark? Very likely. Must hotel real estate be retrofitted in order to meet sustainability requirements or built differently in order to find guests or operators at all in the future? Yes. "I haven't been negative enough yet," said Keynote Speaker Wes Paul. He wasn't the only one shaking up the hotel industry: With their critical, demanding and challenging impulses, 16 speakers pushed operators and investors not only to think further - but also to act! This week's HospitalityInside Think Tank provided executives a content-rich, intensive forum, devoting two days to the crucial topic of the future: "Sustainability & Digitalisation: The Change Drivers."
Augsburg. Guests' desire for more sustainability is having an increasing impact on tourism. In focus today: Real estate service provider succeeds in saving 92,000 tonnes of CO2 / Organise buildings as raw material storage / Transport goods with e-cargo bikes / Two-degree target already missed?
Augsburg. Although there is a growing willingness in the construction and real estate industry for greener buildings and more sustainable projects, it is not fast enough to reach the global net zero targets.
Munich. Car makers are steering towards electromobility, but the switch, as yet lacks power: Across Europe, there are too few charging stations. This provides hotels with a great opportunity to attract guests in a more unconventional way. The young Munich-based company The Mobility House explains which small details hotel businesses have to pay attention to when installing charging infrastructure, both during operation and as regards billing.
Amsterdam. The city of Amsterdam won't go back to mass tourism after the end of the pandemic. The Dutch capital's future can be summed up in four words: smaller scale, local, sustainable. A new Councillor for Tourism and Quality of Life will control the new limits of 12 million visitors only instead of 19 million. The clear message to disrespectful tourists is: Don't come!
Hallstatt/Salzburg. Trampled gardens, drones over private lands, heaps of rubbish. Until the corona pandemic, about a million day tourists, mostly from Asian, came each year to the small town of Hallstatt in Austria's Salzkammergut region, a World Heritage Site for 24 years. Now, 700 inhabitants that form the small community has set itself strictly against mass tourism and is determined to slow things down.