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In 2009, the City of Orlando bid to host the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference, but the bid was declined as the city was not seen as a sustainable destination. This wake-up call inspired a grassroots collective of local organizations, including hotels, attractions, venues, academic institutions, and civic committees, to form Green Destination Orlando…

Greenview co-authored the landmark 2011 publication Developing a Sustainability Measurement Framework for Hotels, which was published bythe Cornell University School of Hotel Administration’s Center for Hospitality Research. Commissioned by leading hotel companies, the study proposed a structured reporting framework for hotel sustainability metrics, addressing the industry’s need for standardization and comparability. A key outcome of…

For more than a decade, Greenview has played an influential role in shaping the hotel industry’s approach to sustainability data. In collaboration with the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration’s Center for Hospitality Research, Greenview co-organized and facilitated the inaugural Sustainability Roundtable in 2009 – a first-of-its-kind forum bringing together sustainability leaders from major hotel…

Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Report reveals significant carbon footprint reduction in hotels around the world by over 30 percent between 2019 and 2021.The CHSB Index 2023 has been released during the eCornell keynote Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry: How Data Is Making an Impact webinar on June 7, 2023. The hotel industry’s largest and…

The interdependence of biodiversity loss and climate change has become increasingly prevalent in the discussions around tackling the climate crisis. With the landmark agreement, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), that was adopted by approximately 190 countries during the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) this past December, we can expect more momentum around biodiversity issues in…