Sustainable Hotel Siting, Design and Construction 
A rapidly growing travel industry, riding on the back of ever cheaper
flights and increased spending power is producing a dilemma for hotel
businesses - how to build more properties without causing damage
to the environment? The publication of the world's first guiding
principles for building tourist developments in a sustainable manner,
co-sponsored by IBLF, will help to address this challenge.
Against a backdrop of predictions that the tourism industry will
double in size over the next 15 years, Conservation International
and the IBLF have published Sustainable Hotel
Siting, Design and Construction - which will dramatically help hotel companies to
build more sustainable and more environmentally friendly tourist
developments.
Nine of the world's largest hotel companies - including Marriott,
Hilton and Starwood - actively supported the development of the
book and are now determining how best to implement the principles
outlined in the publication.
'Sustainable tourism is about preserving popular destinations,
the environment and its resources,' said Ed Fuller, president and
managing director, International Lodging for Marriott International
and chair of the International Tourism Partnership, the tourism
programme of IBLF. 'We have got to get it right for this generation
and beyond.'
There is an overwhelming case for hotels to be designed according
to sustainable principles. As well as the need to preserve the
environment and avoid wastage of resources, businesses are increasingly
realising that a more sustainable approach means a longer-term
business proposition.
Sustainable Hotel Siting, Design and Construction will be used
at all levels of hotel development, from inception through to commissioning.
It will be of use to local government planning authorities, investors,
hotel companies, architects and construction companies to ensure
that in the future, hotels can be built that fit in with the local
environments and communities.
Sustainable development is a concept that for many is easily understood
but difficult to put in practice. This publication will help the
hotel industry do just that.
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Sustainable
Hotel Siting, Design and Construction is available
for purchase at the following rates:
Price per copy: £100 (GBP)
For 10 copies or more: £55 (GBP) each.
Place your order securely online here. |
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For more information contact tourismpartnership@iblf.org or
+44(0)20 7467 3622
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