UK: World hospitality group Millennium Lodges and Resorts (MHR) has achieved the Inexperienced Tourism accreditation for all its owned and managed properties in the UK.
Inexperienced Tourism is a sustainability accreditation and consultancy. Its world membership spans the tourism, hospitality, and occasions sectors, together with customer sights.
9 MHR properties inside the UK, together with The Chelsea Harbour Lodge & Spa and Millennium Gloucester Lodge London Kensington, have acquired silver accreditation. The remaining 9 properties have earned the bronze accreditation.
In accordance with the Inexperienced Tourism web site, bronze companies are “sometimes within the early levels of their inexperienced journey… at the moment implementing a spread of measures throughout the sustainability objectives”. Silver companies “reveal good practices throughout all of the sustainability objectives and have an motion plan for enhancements”.
At MHR, the group has launched the Millennium Inexperienced Path initiative, having established a science-based goal to realize a 27 per cent discount in Scope 1, 2, and three greenhouse gasoline emissions by 2030 with a 2017 bottom line.
Different initiatives embrace the group’s Millennium Inexperienced Conferences dedication, which emphasises the elimination of single-use plastics, paperless occasions, digital signage, and the usage of glass or reusable water bottles for filtered water. It additionally promotes carbon budgeting for occasions and utilises options reminiscent of LED lighting and temperature management in assembly areas to scale back carbon footprint.
