Best Practices for Hotels CD-ROMs

Bass Hotels & Resorts has reduced its water and energy consumption and attending costs by as much as 50 percent in their hotels worldwide. How do they do it? They have produced a CD-ROM to share their experience: it covers engineering, laundry, kitchen and garden operations, renovating and building new hotels, energy audits, benchmarking, and case studies. It demonstrates how to make an environmental management program work for owners, operators, employees and the environment.

The Hong Kong Hotels Association offers a CD-ROM and environmental training manual for hotels in Hong Kong. The package includes an environmental management manual and good practice guides to energy, water and waste management, indoor air quality and environmental legislation. It has been distributed free of charge to all members. It is endorsed by UNEP and the International Hotel and Restaurant Association as a cost effective way to get ISO 14001 certification.

Bass Hotels & Resorts: Reiner Boehme, reiner_boehme@interconti.com
Hong Kong Hotels Association: James Lu, hkha@att.net.hk