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Top hotels are apparently turning to washing machines which use beads rather than water to clean linen. The new technology uses up to 80% less water, up to 50% less energy and roughly 50% less detergent, say the makers. When the beads’ molecular structure is combined with the right detergent, dirt from soiled items is […]

Checking into an environmentally friendly hotel on holiday in Europe could soon be much easier. That’s after the travel website TripAdvisor decided to award hotels and B&Bs with a GreenLeader status if they notch up green behaviour. It’s an expansion of a scheme the website launched in the US last year and it says hotels […]

Leisureplex Hotel Group is powering five of its UK hotels with renewable energy. The deal with independent supplier SmartestEnergy covers some of its largest seaside resort sites, including the Queens hotels in Eastbourne (pictured) and Blackpool and the Croit Anna in Fort William. From the start of December 2013, 477 rooms in Leisureplex hotels have run […]

Holiday group TUI Travel said it has beaten its most “stretching” target to cut carbon emissions and saved more than one million pounds with energy and water efficiency over 2013. The group which has more than 30 million customers and owns travel firm Thompson said it cut the relative carbon emissions across all six of […]

Ever think about how much carbon goes into making your coffee? It’s a question the owner of the Costa coffee chain has thought about – and it says it has saved more than 1500 tonnes of CO2 in 2011. Whitbread, the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant group, cut the same amount of carbon as taking […]

Global hotelier Marriott is planning to cut its water use by 450 million gallons over the next three years. The chain has teamed up with sustainable services firm Nalco to install water saving equipment in chillers and cooling towers across its hotels worldwide. The programme was kicked off at a hotel in Mumbai, India, where […]

A hotel in the Lake District has been named Green Hotel of the Year. The Langdale Hotel & Spa in Cumbria took the title at the hospitality industry’s own award night. The runners-up were the Marriott Marble Arch, Jury’s Inn, Liverpool, the Park Royal in Warrington and Premier Moor Hotel and Spa in Sutton Coldfield. […]

Figures show that as many as 70% of hotels could be paying too much for their gas and electricity. And the energy crisis, which is said to affect around 35,000 hotels in the UK, is estimated to be costing the country’s hotel industry more than £250m a year. Research shows that the average hotel with […]