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Cristina Ramos: 'Green ideas are popping up everywhere - scale is the issue'

Management

Cristina Ramos: 'Green ideas are popping up everywhere - scale is the issue'

Hotel group Accor's chief sustainability officer for Europe and North Africa reflects on the 'learning curve' of balancing sustainability and comfort at hotels, and the value of compromise

clock 21 January 2025 • 4 min read

Waste

Miniature move: Hotel giant IHG kicks out mini plastic shampoo bottles

Hotelier behind Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, and Regent Hotels & Resorts to replace mini plastic shampoo bottles with larger refillables across entire estate

clock 30 July 2019 • 2 min read

Carbon Accounting

Paddington hotels and businesses eye cost savings from carbon reduction drive

Businesses in the area plan to measure resource consumption, carbon emissions, and air pollution in bid to curb impacts

clock 20 September 2018 • 1 min read

Facilities

AccorHotels food waste drive sees 26 UK hotels gain onsite veg gardens

Around 600 of company's hotels around the world now grow their own produce on site for use in its restaurants and bars as part of food waste drive

clock 09 August 2018 • 2 min read

Waste

Study: Hotels have 'compelling business case' to cut food waste

Research led by the global Champions 12.3 initiative found hotels saved $7 for every $1 invested in measures to reduce food waste

clock 05 April 2018 • 2 min read

Facilities

Malmaison and Hotel du Vin pledge end to plastic straw use at 33 hotels

Hotel group pledges to replace around 750,000 plastic straws used annually with paper-based straws in bid to reduce plastic waste

clock 01 December 2017 • 1 min read