As an industry, the challenge of transforming the sector is to look for solutions that address global environmental and social issues in the short and medium term to ensure long-term value creation. In the context of COP27, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2022 found that policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C temperature rise by […]
The risks affecting the hospitality industry are not only related to inflation, war, and geopolitics. Science has proven that climate-related risks and biodiversity loss are a threat. The hospitality industry operates in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. With constant unpredictable change being the norm in many industries, it is difficult to predict and […]
Leaders are pressured to do the right thing, choose the right product and services, and deploy the “right strategies” that allow company growth year after year. Not to mention the challenges that emerge along the way, especially in long and messy processes, such as asset pre-openings, re-branding or retrofits. To create value in the industry, […]
How can a small business generate substantial positive impacts? In conversations with SMEs and family businesses, I often receive questions such as how and why implement the strategy of sustainability and regenerative practices in hotels? Why is it vital to rethink the impact of hotels and hotel chains? Innovation By implementing sustainability plans from an […]
Sustainable Hospitality The Post-Covid ScenarioThe easing of restrictions has led to travel levels at pace again. Also, in the EMEA region, room rates are back to what we saw in pre-pandemic and hoteliers must keep driving rates to compensate for inflation costs. We have a triple planetary crisis relating to climate, pollution, and nature. It […]
How can capital allocation transform the hospitality business for the better? Practical implications for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESGs) criteria in Hospitality. Hospitality businesses implementing a sustainability strategy, starting their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) non-financial reports should consider the advances of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group EFRAG and European regulation. Many companies have […]
What means for hospitality businesses the Business and Human Rights Roadmap established by the UN Working Group for the Next Decade? December 10th was International Human Rights Day. It marks the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The United Nations Working Group on Business […]
