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Hamburg. Many sustainability alliances, cooperations or certifiers are far too concerned with emissions or the environment and far too little with people and employees, complains Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt. That's why he founded the "Meaningful Tourism Center" in Hamburg. And is looking for more positive examples from the hospitality's "human resources" world.

Brussels. The European business travel associations want to enforce a CO2 documentation obligation with comparable measurement results for the entire travel chain as an EU regulation. According to a position paper, hotels would then always have to include the CO2 footprint in their price offers, bookings and invoices.

Augsburg. There is no sustainability without the use of digital technologies. This message has now also reached German companies: 9 out of 10 companies implement their climate goals with digital technologies. Nevertheless, many companies still lack sufficient data and their IT specialists lack climate knowledge.

Bern. HotellerieSuisse believes that voluntary savings targets set by politicians, which the businesses themselves can achieve, are a good way to achieve this and has, among other things, co-founded an energy-saving alliance for this purpose.

Augsburg. Today in focus: BIM-based building passport / Biofuel at AIDA Cruises / Kerosene made of sunlight / Robot charging column for e-cars / Food waste measures at Metro.

Vienna. The ambitions towards sustainability among the Austrian hoteliers is probably not based on an increased environmental awareness but rather on cost factors: Some of them already wanted to be energy self-sufficient years ago, and more of them are doing so now. This certainly pays off during and after the gas crisis. Among the hotels, which produce their own power and heat, are pioneers and lucky stars. This is about an old castle hotel in Carinthia, the Boutqiuehotel Stadthalle Vienna, as well as about wood, wood chips and old figures.

Dresden. The sustainability reports of large hotel groups as they are published today will in future no longer be sufficient. They are too imprecise. The EU Commission has now intervened in a significant move: In July, it resolved to implement the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. In the industry, it means that significantly more companies will be required to report - starting as early as 2024. Standards are becoming much tougher, external audits mandatory. Professor Dr Hannes Antonschmidt from the SRH Dresden School of Management describes the changes.

Heidelberg. Because around half of the waste generated in Germany comes from the construction and demolition sector, the city on the Neckar is relying on the urban mining principle with the pilot project "Circular City – Building Material Cadastre for the City of Heidelberg".

Berlin. The German Federal Cabinet decided this week on the future distribution of CO2 costs between tenants and landlords. For this purpose, it has developed a tiered model based on the specific emissions of the rented building. For commercial properties such as hotels, a 50:50 regulation still applies for a transitional period.

Augsburg. Today in focus: Twitter advertising ban / CO2 compensation in the booking process / Package tours by train / LH flying CO2-neutral / Hydrogen train / Climate-neutral cement / Circular economy and material leasing / Sustainable coffee capsules / Less water consumption through mini-turbines / New frameworks & memberships.