The GDS-Index is a destination level program that measures, benchmarks and improves the sustainability strategy and performance of tourism and events destinations.  Its purpose is to inspire, engage and enable destinations to become more regenerative, flourishing and resilient places to visit, where to meet, and thrive ...

The forum explores ideas, strategies and solution for an industry facing increased environmental and societal challenges.  Industry opinion leaders and experts share their thoughts, reactions and insights on the important issues and events that are affecting the global hospitality business.  Its goal is to anchor susta ...

This initiative aims to enable every hotel to improve their impact, wherever they are on the transition towards sustainability.  The sustainability framework accessible to the global hospitality industry will encompass four clear stages and practical tools to guide the industry towards a regenerative impact.  The hospi ...

Incremental change is not putting communities on track for sustainability, equity and prosperity.  Although successful sustainable change is happening, the solutions and successful efforts towards urban transformation are not identified and publicized.  To right this, the WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities initiative spo ...

Professions in the environmental sector – "green jobs " – are now quite popular among Austrians.  In a recent study, 43% of respondents showed interest in a green job, as high as 60% among 14- to 18-year-olds.  Waste and resource management is viewed as a crisis-proof job (46%) and a job with a purpose and benefit for ...

This report reveals that company executives are the most significant source of pressure behind corporate commitments to supply chain sustainability (SCS).  Given their central role in setting and steering strategies, this suggests that the drive toward supply chain sustainability is a long-term business trend.  The rep ...

The unvaccinated are at a much greater risk of getting infected and spreading the coronavirus disease.  They suffer the most severe symptoms and are the corona patients who occupy over 90% of the ICU beds.  Even though they restrict individual freedoms, lockdowns are justifiable where necessary and proportionate to ach ...

Using marginal abatement cost (MAC) for investment decision-making brings hoteliers, investors, owners and operators multiple benefits, depending on the type and scope and responsibility of investment.  The marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) provides a visual representation to easily identify the initiatives that hav ...

This paper suggests that the circular economy (CE) offers a pathway towards a resilient and sustainable, tourism ecosystem.  It also suggests that hospitality, travel and tourism has an important role to play in the circular economy transition.  The stakeholders can act as enablers of circularity and benefit from share ...

When headline say “Half of those who died from the virus were vaccinated”, we don't know whether or not the vaccine is protecting people.  For this, we need to know how many people were vaccinated and how many were not.  Comparisons of the absolute numbers is a "base rate fallacy".  If 5 of 10 unvaccinated people died, ...

Carbon footprint/climate change appears to be the most commonly used life-cycle sustainability indicator for tourism and hospitality.  Specific sustainability indicators that consider socio-economic and socio-cultural aspects have rarely been specified in the industry's transition towards circular economy.  Future life ...

Supply chains are often highly complex and span many countries and include multiple tiers that are made more opaque by outsourcing and offshoring.  Highly interdependent, the relationship between products and services and ESG risk factors are intertwined across sectors and throughout every level of the supply chain.  A ...

The hospitality industry needs to become more sustainable and hotels globally are focusing on the sustainability impacts of their supply chains.  This guidance addresses the environmental and social sustainability issues in hospitality supply chains and recommends steps for determining what sustainability information t ...

Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) anticipates a climate policy acceleration driven in part by investor, corporate and civil society pressure around net zero, climate impacts, and low-carbon technology cost developments.  The principles address the different emissions paths between the developed and developing nations in ...

Environmental protection and sustainability are important factors in the hotel business and their competitiveness.  Performance and environmental sustainability indicators help hotel managers identify opportunities for employing processes for saving resources to improve the environmental performance of their hotels.  T ...