CEO Profiles

Andrew Cosslett, CEO, InterContinental Hotels Group

As the world’s largest hotel company, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is looking very strongly at how it can address both the challenges and opportunities of creating a sustainable hotel...

Paul White, President and CEO, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd

I’ve worked for Orient-Express Hotels for just over 18 years in a variety of roles, from financial controller, regional vice president of hotel operations and chief financial officer, to my...

Gabriele Burgio, chairman and CEO, NH Hoteles

We joined the International Tourism Partnership—the first Spanish hotel chain to do so—because we wanted to meet like-minded people with similar environmental aims and objectives....

Ed Fuller, president and managing director, international lodging, Marriott International

Thirty-six years ago when I started in this business, thinking about the impact of climate change was the farthest thing from my mind. And yet today, I co-chair Marriott’s executive-level Green...

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Issue 50 - Water management and conservation

Date: 18th February 2010 | 0 Comments

Why the need to conserve water?

Most water (97%) is in the oceans, which cover 71% of the Earth's surface. Three per cent is freshwater, two-thirds of which is tied up as ice in glaciers and at the poles. This leaves approximately 1% as freshwater in rivers, lakes, the atmosphere and in groundwater.

However, with demand rising rapidly due to a growing global population with expectations of higher living standards and resource-intensive farming, that 1% is under threat. Climate change is adding to the...

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