Personalizing their services to give guests the experience they are looking for while offering food and beverage offerings as well as spa services to boost immunity while staying safe.
The new Alma resort and its staff are answering the call to help victims of the Central Vietnam floods, donating relief packs and gearing up to help rebuild battered communities.
The Spanish hotel company is now offering special packages with day access to city hotels and extended stay offers at tropical destination resorts around the world.
Russell joined HVS in 1995 and was appointed managing director in 1996, becoming chairman in 2012. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from HOSPA, the hospitality professionals’ association, in 2011, and the ‘Hall of Fame’ Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hot.E hotel investment conference in London in 2017. He shares his thoughts on the long term effects of the pandemic and strategies to survive.
Costa Rica has launched a carbon footprint calculator, the first of its kind, which encourages tourists to offset their emissions from air and land travel. Developed by the National Forest Financing Fund (Fonafifo) with the support of the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), Costa Rica’s carbon footprint calculator will aid the country’s sustainable tourism efforts and strengthen forest conservation. Costa Rica is home to more than 6% of the world’s known biodiversity and has 54% forest cover, being the only Central American country that has grown its forests in this century.
According to calculations made based on the ICT’s 2018 visitation data, if only 10% of the tourist emissions calculated were offset (476,541), an annual benefit of $3,574,063 would be achieved. This could fund the planting of more than 1.5 million trees, or support agroforestry systems in some 34,500+ acres. The operationalization of the program will be carried out by the ICT and Fonafifo, an organization responsible for recovering more than 3 million acres of Costa Rica land between 1997 and 2019.
How it Works
Travellers can click this link to access the calculator and quantify their carbon emissions.
For more information on Costa Rica’s carbon footprint calculator, see the Costa Rican Tourism Institute’s announcement press release attached and infographics here. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or are interested in speaking with an ICT or Fonafifo representative.
In appreciation of the selfless healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients around the world, Baros, an island resort in the Maldives, has created a permanent tribute out of regenerated coral.
Let’s face it: Even discussing conference and banqueting business right now drips of tone deafness. We get it: There’s not much of it on the books. According to HotStats data, year-to-date revenue from conference and banqueting is down 72% to $8.38 per available room compared to the same period last year.
The Juma Amazon Lodge has just won the ABETA Natural Brazil award in the “Sustainability” category. The hotel is located in the forest some three hours from Manaus, in the municipality of Autazes (AM).
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