Why Aren’t Individual Hotels Embracing Sustainable Practices?

Francis W. Purvey | August 22, 2022

By Francis W. Purvey While governments and corporations struggle - unsuccessfully for the most part - with climate change, sea level rise and carbon neutral objectives, individual tourism and hospitality visionaries need to focus on the micro sustainability initiatives demanded by our customers. When asked for sustainability policies by meeting planners and travel agents, hotel sales people invariably have nothing to offer other than potentially “we are looking into it” or maybe “our brand has an aggressive sustainability statement, but we can’t participate because our management company has different policies.”  Inevitabilit...