Ecompter’s Sustainability Service for hotels, that comes with continuous CO2 management reporting and a web CO2 calculator for the hotel guests, is the 1st service to be in response to the recent hotel industry agreed common method for measuring and communicating carbon emissions – the Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative (HCMI 1.0).
The HCMI 1.0 methodology was developed by the sector Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and the International Tourism Partnership (ITP), in consultation with 23 leading hotel groups and KPMG. Ecompter was among the companies consulted at the methodology during its second phase of development.
To support the adoption of the HCMI standard and to enable the hotel community to start with a uniform way of CO2 reporting, Ecompter is offering a brand new free 6 month trial of the service.
Ecompter’s sustainability service also features a simple-to-digest summary of the hotel’s environmental initiatives and results, plus an interactive image of the hotel room to turn guests how they could cut their energy use during their stay (eg simply by the room’s shower in place of bath).
Mr. Ville Valorinta, Managing Director of Ecompter says; ”Through Ecompter we wish to help raise awareness and understanding of ways unbiased and standardized CO2 reporting and inter-active communication may be used to control and monitor the environmental initiatives and have interaction both staff and guests to concentrate on the consumption.”
Fran Hughes, Head of Programmes at ITP say; “We are working hard to embed the methodology and accomplish maximum soak up. We are hoping to extend the ‘supply’ of data by reaching out to other hotel groups about HCMI, in addition to to travel management companies and global distribution systems to make sure they’re aware that carbon footprint information is on the market and guaranteeing it usually is provided to the shopper within the simplest format.”