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Major new research into the risks of climate change to the UK predicts that, without action, by the second half of this century warmer temperatures in the summer could cost businesses £15 billion in staff absenteeism a year.
A leading global hotelier has created an open access platform to share knowledge about sustainable development across the international hospitality sector.
A luxury hotel on the edge of the New Forest has been granted planning permission for a set of 'tree house suites’ to be located deep in woodland on the hotel’s 130-acre grounds, despite the environmentally sensitive nature of the project.
Hotels will be able to contribute to climate change mitigation while also increasing their profits under a new United Nations-backed 'green’ scheme offering an online toolkit to evaluate energy consumption, find renewable sources and cut costs with improved energy efficiency.
Leading hoteliers are working to develop common standards to calculate and report on the international tourism industry’s carbon emissions with the aim of having the first ones in place by early 2012.
In contrast to many other sectors, in UK tourism it is small businesses that have been leading the way on sustainability, but the Feed-in Tariff could soon change all that. Ann Elise Taylor reports.
Business travellers and tourists can now access a 'green map’ to guide them to London’s most environmentally conscious hotels, restaurants and retailers.
The Mint Hotel in central London just got a bit greener as Frosts Landscape Construction unveiled Europe’s tallest living wall.
With hopes of boosting tourism and reducing carbon emissions, the Government is considering extending British daylight in the summer by an extra hour.
A hotel in York that caters for conferences has seen a three-fold increase in the number of delegates arriving at the venue by bicycle in the last year.
The Queens Hotel in Leeds is showing how green-mindedness in tourism can benefit the bottom line for businesses.
Tourism businesses in the Lake District are stepping up their efforts to protect their economy and environment through a new visitor car-free scheme.
The historic Savoy Hotel has reopened after three years of renovation, claiming to be the most eco-friendly luxury hotel in the city.
A sound and meaningful environmental policy is now more than ever before a vital part of competitive positioning for tourism businesses, but any statement of intent requires a firm hand to become reality.
President Barack Obama went swimming off the coast of Florida on Saturday and declared the Gulf area's beaches "open for business," trying to show by example that a region hit by the BP oil spill was safe for tourists to enjoy.