Collaboration to drive transformation to sustainable options throughout the sector.
LONDON, ENGLAND – The Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Hospitality and Tourism Process Power introduced its founding members and new partnerships, which incorporates 14 international hospitality corporations and three main sustainability and inter-governmental growth organisations. The Process Power will drive extra sustainable actions within the sector.
Founding members embrace:
- Glenn Mandziuk, CEO of the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance and Co-chair of Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism Process Power
- Xenia zu Hohenlohe, Co-founding Associate of the Thoughtful Group and Co-chair of Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism
- Keith Barr, CEO of IHG Resorts & Resorts
- Sebastien Bazin, CEO of Accor
- Jorg Bockler, CEO of Dorint Resorts & Resorts
- Anthony Capuano, President and CEO of Marriott Worldwide, Inc.
- Katerina Giannouka, CEO of Jumeirah Group
- Federico J. González, CEO of Radisson Lodge Group
- Marloes Knippenberg, CEO of Kerten Hospitality
- Chris Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton
- Karl-Heinz Pawlizki, CEO of Arabella Hospitality
- Tim Rumney, CEO of BWH Lodge Group GB
- Sonu Shivdasani, Founder, CEO and Joint Artistic Director of Soneva
- Gloria Fluxà Thienemann, Vice-Chairman & Chief Sustainability Officer at Iberostar Group
Sustainability companions and inter-governmental growth organisations embrace:
- Suzanne Neufang, CEO of the International Enterprise Journey Affiliation (GBTA)
- Julia Simpson, President and CEO of the World Journey & Tourism Council (WTTC)
- Zoritsa Urosevic, Govt Director of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
The Process Power, introduced final yr at COP15 in Montreal, Canada, is aligned with the Sustainable Market Initiative’s Terra Carta which gives a roadmap for the personal sector to speed up the transition to a sustainable future. One which harnesses the facility of Nature mixed with the transformative energy, innovation, and assets of the personal sector.
It’s co-chaired by the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance’s Chief Govt Officer, Glenn Mandziuk, and the Thoughtful Group’s Co-founding Associate, Xenia zu Hohenlohe. The Process Power will help efforts that create management and collaboration within the hospitality and tourism {industry}, within the pursuit of tangible, scalable and sensible sustainable options. This may increasingly embrace constructing momentum for extra transformative options within the sectors’ worth and provide chain.
The Process Power goals to leverage present infrastructure to find and find out how the {industry} can speed up pathways to sustainability making a higher affect. The Process Power members will work collectively to establish and pursue supply of alternatives to scale back carbon and environmental footprint. The purpose is to ship standardised measurement instruments to allow lodges to know affect and prioritise motion on carbon emissions, water, waste and biodiversity and pure capital.
A spotlight of the Process Power consists of analysis and different sustainable options for {industry} leads, workers, and provide chains to help innovation by way of system and design considering. It should help roadmaps for industry-level transition supporting sector deal with attaining internet zero earlier than 2050. It goals for the {industry} to embed water stewardship into decision-making, embed circularity and help zero waste to landfill, together with addressing single-use plastics, meals waste, and help for biodiversity efforts and regeneration on land and under water. The Process Power additionally recognises the necessity to enhance entry to scrub applied sciences and renewable vitality throughout the sector and in firm member operations.
By utilising the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance’s present committees and analysis, alongside the experience of sustainability and hospitality companions, this collaboration will maximise the collective expertise and thought management of those networks and improve alignment.
Glenn Mandziuk, CEO, Sustainable Hospitality Alliance and Co-chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism Process Power, stated: “I welcome our founding members who convey their experience and information to assist construct a extra sustainable future for the hospitality and tourism {industry}. By galvanising the dialog round sustainability, we will drive sensible and tangible options, to push innovation and deal with the challenges the {industry} faces. The Process Power goals to collaborate not solely with one another, however different Process Forces. With far-reaching worth and provide chains, the hospitality and tourism {industry} are in a novel place to have interaction and have cross-sector affect. I look ahead to working with our members and hope to welcome extra leaders to the Hospitality and Tourism Process Power because the {industry} focuses on pathways to speed up sustainability.”
Xenia zu Hohenlohe, Co-founding Associate, the Thoughtful Group and Co-chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism Process Power stated: “I’m very inspired by the extent of dedication and management of the founding members, to our goal of bringing this {industry} along with different sectors, already lively as a part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, to construct a extra sustainable future. The hospitality and tourism {industry} can play a pivotal function, given its crossover with so many different sectors, akin to aviation, asset administration, transport, buildings, to say however a couple of, on this course of. Therefore this job power can be key to making sure most alignment in our efforts to overcoming the frequent challenges our societies and firms face relating to local weather change. I’m honoured to co-chair this group of extremely skilled and devoted CEO’s and companions.”
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