PATA teams up with EarthCheck

PATA teams up with EarthCheck

By HMA Staff 27 September 2010

In partnership with environmental management system EarthCheck, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is offering a free of charge environmental assessment tool.

The online calculator (www.pata.org/Footprints), designed by EarthCheck, is intended to help small and medium tourism operators to assess the carbon impact of their business.
 
EarthCheck has also agreed to supply PATA with various sustainability fact sheets, case studies and sustainability reports for member use.
 
The following hotel companies have committed to EarthCheck: Carlson, Accor, IHG, Langham, Banyan Tree, and Alila Hotels & Resorts.
 
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Submitted by lawrence ngan on 1 October 2010 - 10:54am

Business has been nowadays, established itself with a sensible energy conservation programme to proactively protecting our environment. It is truth that global consumer owns their responsible to reducing damage and impact on the environment. Consumer is wiling to purchase a product from a company that would help to minimize pollution to the environment and has great measurement in operation in this respect. We had seen so many floods, slope collapses, and more natural disasters of the extreme weather condition around the world. We need to take action now before it is too late to react.

As an hotelier, we would have to live up with the condition that learning to deal with the issue by better alternative, and to balancing action not to distributing environment and our guest for their comfort by implementing a better policy to eliminate energy wastage and reducing chemical dumping to the environment.

I notice that several hotel chains has implement discount to business and already sacrified by giving out complimentary dinner or cash coupon to their guest during their stay as a kind of encouragement for the guest to reuse their towel and bed linen for one more night. We don’t wanted to abandoned our planet earth one date and start to look for sponsorship for searching a new planet in the outer space for ourselves to continue to live on without earth.

I really hope that more business will join in the earth check programme in order to support the conservation for energy as we are almost certain now a day that without it, we would not be able to create a better environment for our future to continue and keep living on the planet earth.

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