Collaboration to drive transformation to sustainable options throughout the sector.
LONDON, ENGLAND – The Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Hospitality and Tourism Task Force introduced its founding members and new partnerships, which incorporates 14 world hospitality corporations and three main sustainability and inter-governmental growth organisations. The Task Force will drive extra sustainable actions within the sector.
Founding members embrace:
- Glenn Mandziuk, CEO of the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance and Co-chair of Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism Task Force
- Xenia zu Hohenlohe, Co-founding Partner of the Considerate Group and Co-chair of Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism
- Keith Barr, CEO of IHG Hotels & Resorts
- Sebastien Bazin, CEO of Accor
- Jorg Bockler, CEO of Dorint Hotels & Resorts
- Anthony Capuano, President and CEO of Marriott International, Inc.
- Katerina Giannouka, CEO of Jumeirah Group
- Federico J. González, CEO of Radisson Hotel Group
- Marloes Knippenberg, CEO of Kerten Hospitality
- Chris Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton
- Karl-Heinz Pawlizki, CEO of Arabella Hospitality
- Tim Rumney, CEO of BWH Hotel Group GB
- Sonu Shivdasani, Founder, CEO and Joint Creative Director of Soneva
- Gloria Fluxà Thienemann, Vice-Chairman & Chief Sustainability Officer at Iberostar Group
Sustainability companions and inter-governmental growth organisations embrace:
- Suzanne Neufang, CEO of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA)
- Julia Simpson, President and CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC)
- Zoritsa Urosevic, Executive Director of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
The Task Force, introduced final yr at COP15 in Montreal, Canada, is aligned with the Sustainable Market Initiative’s Terra Carta which offers a roadmap for the personal sector to speed up the transition to a sustainable future. One that harnesses the ability of Nature mixed with the transformative energy, innovation, and assets of the personal sector.
It is co-chaired by the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance’s Chief Executive Officer, Glenn Mandziuk, and the Considerate Group’s Co-founding Partner, Xenia zu Hohenlohe. The Task Force will help efforts that create management and collaboration within the hospitality and tourism {industry}, within the pursuit of tangible, scalable and sensible sustainable options. This might embrace constructing momentum for extra transformative options within the sectors’ worth and provide chain.
The Task Force goals to leverage present infrastructure to find and learn the way the {industry} can speed up pathways to sustainability making a better influence. The Task Force members will work collectively to establish and pursue supply of alternatives to scale back carbon and environmental footprint. The purpose is to ship standardised measurement instruments to allow accommodations to know influence and prioritise motion on carbon emissions, water, waste and biodiversity and pure capital.
A spotlight of the Task Force contains analysis and different sustainable options for {industry} leads, employees, and provide chains to help innovation by way of system and design considering. It will help roadmaps for industry-level transition supporting sector deal with attaining internet zero earlier than 2050. It goals for the {industry} to embed water stewardship into decision-making, embed circularity and help zero waste to landfill, together with addressing single-use plastics, meals waste, and help for biodiversity efforts and regeneration on land and under water. The Task Force additionally recognises the necessity to enhance entry to scrub applied sciences and renewable power throughout the sector and in firm member operations.
By utilising the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance’s present committees and analysis, alongside the experience of sustainability and hospitality companions, this collaboration will maximise the collective expertise and thought management of those networks and improve alignment.
Glenn Mandziuk, CEO, Sustainable Hospitality Alliance and Co-chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism Task Force, mentioned: “I welcome our founding members who bring their expertise and knowledge to help build a more sustainable future for the hospitality and tourism industry. By galvanising the conversation around sustainability, we can drive practical and tangible solutions, to push innovation and address the challenges the industry faces. The Task Force aims to collaborate not only with each other, but other Task Forces. With far-reaching value and supply chains, the hospitality and tourism industry are in a unique position to engage and have cross-sector influence. I look forward to working with our members and hope to welcome more leaders to the Hospitality and Tourism Task Force as the industry focuses on pathways to accelerate sustainability.”
Xenia zu Hohenlohe, Co-founding Partner, the Considerate Group and Co-chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Hospitality and Tourism Task Force mentioned: “I am very encouraged by the level of commitment and leadership of the founding members, to our purpose of bringing this industry together with other sectors, already active as part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, to build a more sustainable future. The hospitality and tourism industry can play a pivotal role, given its crossover with so many other sectors, such as aviation, asset management, shipping, buildings, to mention but a few, in this process. Hence this task force is also key to ensuring maximum alignment in our efforts to overcoming the common challenges our societies and companies face when it comes to climate change. I am honoured to co-chair this group of highly professional and dedicated CEO’s and partners.”
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