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Munich. At the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, Derag Hotel and Living, a German specialist for apartments, wants to transform one of its existing hotels into a zero-energy hotel. The innovative prototype will open at the beginning of 2011. The environmentally friendly principle is: to increase the building's own production and decrease its consumption! The cooling/heating ceilings play a decisive role here. However, the building has to be dismantled down to its shell first.

Duesseldorf. In January 2011, the Hyatt Regency Duesseldorf will open. It has applied for the certification according to the new hotel seal of quality issued by Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Nachhaltiges Bauen. The hotel's heat and cold supply has been designed to go especially easy on resources. The groundwater, which is being extracted from the ground via a geothermal plant, is used in three ways: for heating, cooling and flushing.

Nuremberg. As of immediately guests at the NH Nuremberg City can arrive with their electric environmentally friendly cars and recharge both their and their cars' batteries overnight. The latter free of charge! This 4-star hotel is the first NH hotel to offer this environmentally friendly service in Germany.

Zermatt. After near six years of planning and a construction phase of two summers, on 10 March 2010, the new Monte Rosa cabin near Zermatt will open with 110 beds at 2,883m above sea level. The cabin is to test new hotel technologies and energy management methods.

White Plains. Rolling out the "green carpet" for drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles, Element Hotels announced its goal to install electric car-charging stations at all of its properties by the end of 2009.

London. One Cornish hotelier in England is about to show that hotels can boast impeccable eco-credentials. The 37-room boutique hotel opened 1 September near Newquay and is one of the eco pioneers in UK.

Gstaad. The Gstaad Palace in Switzerland has secured the beginning of a new ecological means of supplying heat. After two months of construction and an investment of 650,000 CHF, the hotel is the first customer of a new district heating network to provide heat from renewable Swiss energy sources.