Green Hotel Innovation Part One

Hotels usually go with a worldwide trend. As the Climate Change issue continuously making noise in the world, plans like greener development are introduced left and right. Hotels also participate in preventing the worst scenario of Climate Change so that's why these certain Green developments are produced.

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For the improvement of the environment and benefits of the hotel guests, green services and equipments are made. Guests and travelers are now more conscious in the effects of products and services in nature and environment. In fact, they are choosing hotels, which offer recyclable materials, services and products that are environmentally-friendly. Green service includes re-usage of linens, eco-friendly activities and team buildings, or extensive recycling policies. To add some on it, Green amenities can be seen and heard from the prestigious hotels.

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Greener Hotel Amenities

Whenever a guest learns that the hotel has a green concept, demands will rise on asking for more greener service. It's more than a trend for them that must be implemented worldwide. 

Amenities like extras that hotels could provide, but as we all know these services tend to improve and slowly reduced the bothering effect of climate change in the world. To name some of it, soap and shampoos are not as harmful to the environment unlike the chemically-treated and manufactured products that usually have the highest possibility of harming the unprotected environment. 

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Hotels should meet the demand for green amenities by implementing the rules of re-usage of linen and towels, which is not popular on most hotels; recycling booth at guest room, the usage of LED in all areas of the hotel, and even the lowering the water pressure in bathrooms to conserve water. Green services could be food serve and purchased locally, or activities such as tree planting that could be an attraction of the hotel. As an addition, Hotels are focused on the room services that are meant to reduce waste, and minimize the negative impact on the environment. 

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Travelers come to expect them even when staying at budget hotels. At the very minimum they at least expect a bar of soap. At the extremes, when staying at luxury properties, they expect luxury bathroom amenities, including shampoo with conditioner, lotion, powder, mouthwash, and a lot more. Problem with these amenities is that they create a lot of waste. More waste that adds to the growing landfills and also makes it difficult for hotels to meet greener standards even they set it for themselves. 

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Suggestions

Even if the guests are environmentally-conscious, all the guests want to have the new sets for them. Empty sachet and bottle of shampoos and conditioner are tended to throw into trash bins as trash. Even the partially-used bar soaps are declared as trash. Of course, it can't be repacked and re-distribute to the guest, instead. It ends up as additional garbage in the sanitary landfill.  Hotels can simply donate this partially used bathroom materials to charity institutions. In some circumstances, resorts can provide these empty products to organizations that will sanitize and spread them to charitable groups and institution, or deliver them to other areas worldwide for those that are in need of such services. However, that is only possible if there are sources in a hotel’s community that can provide those services. So, the partly used products get tossed away, thus including to rising mountains of trash in the sanitary land field. 

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Hotels and Resort can choose to fight the problem by removing bathroom products or decreasing by simply reducing it, but it also affects the luxury hotel accommodations that usually have the higher rankings and ratings upon producing this kind of expenditures.