Environmental protection pays off financially for hotels

Tourism is a resource-intensive industry that leaves a big footprint on the environment.  More and more European hotels are thus adopting environmental management schemes which add value regarding:

• Legal compliance with environmental legislation;
• The measurement and evaluation of environmental performance against objectives and targets;
• Continuous improvement of that environmental performance;
• Strong employee involvement;
• Environmental core indicators facilitating comparison within and between organisations;
• Transparent communication: Provision of information to the general public through the environmental statement;
• Reliability: Independent verification.

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