RADISSON HOTEL GROUP together on sustainability , and represents 25 % of the industry in terms of number of rooms .
Considering around 70 % of the industry is made up of independent hotels or small groups , this 25 % is made up of the major groups – including Marriott , IHG , Hilton , Hyatt , Radisson Hotel Group , large producers like Caesars and innovative groups like Soneva . In the Alliance , these groups work together on coordinated efforts and initiatives covering People and Planet . That includes carbon footprint , climate action , youth employment and human rights .
“ The SHA has been around for over 25 years and we have already issued industry tools to measure carbon footprints for hotels in a consistent way . Same for water ,” says Inge .
“ We ' re working on a waste methodology and hope to deliver this together with the United Nations World Tourism Organization UNWTO .
This collaborative approach extends from Radisson Hotel Group into numerous innovative partnerships relating to sustainability in order to achieve their carbon reduction goals . Today , 18 % of energy used by Radisson Hotels worldwide is renewable and 25 hotels operate on 100 % renewable energy . Thanks to a partnership with E . On , the Radisson Blu Hotel , Frankfurt has the first large scale hydrogen combined heat and power installation . Thanks to this installation , 30 % of energy of this 430 + room hotel is generated fully emission free . This installation was the first of its kind in Europe on that scale .
Another partner called Solarus has installed hybrid solar panels on the roof of Park Inn by Radisson Foreshore in the Cape Town CBD . These panels produce electricity as well as heat and hot water – covering 30 % of the hotel ’ s hot water requirement .
Sustainability is all about the future , and Inge says that the increased focus on safety – as individuals and as a wider society – is perhaps the biggest lesson learned from the last 18 months .
“ During the pandemic , sustainability has not gone away and in the past few months , it has come back in full force ,” she says . “ And that ' s simply because people realise that there ' s no vaccine against climate change .”
“ Being a responsible company , we do everything in our power to go to climate neutrality by 2050 , and we take our employees and our clients on that journey . I think Sustainability is an economic and social imperative . Sustainability is a necessity if we want to keep our planet a livable place for us humans .”
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