Glenn Hasek
RoomEnergy Announces Partnership with Energy Star
SALT LAKE CITY—RoomEnergy announced a fundamental commitment to protect the environment by becoming an Energy Star partner. RoomEnergy, through its voluntary partnership with the...
Raksha Bella Introduces Organic Lines to Lodging Industry
BERKELEY, CALIF.—Raksha Bella Organic introduces its Indian organic cotton duvet covers, quilts, pillow cases and Euro shams, handblocked in classic Indian patterns with low...
Pineapple Rolls Out Apparel Line for FreshStay Members
SAINT CHARLES, MO.—Participating members of FreshStay.com will have a new dress code for Fridays. To promote the benefits of being 100 percent smoke free,...
IRHA Announces Lifetime Award for Ecotourism Pioneer
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.—Héctor Ceballos-Lascuráin is to be awarded the International Restaurant and Hotel Awards (IRHA) Lifetime Achievement award. Previously winner of Planeta’s Colibri Ecotourism...
The Rooms Chronicle, EI Collaborate on New Textbook
LANSING, MICH.—The new textbook, Managing Housekeeping Operations, Revised Third Edition, represents a collaboration between the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) and The...
IHM Founder/CEO Launches Green Hotel Bookings Site
THOUSAND OAKS, CALIF.—Founder/CEO of Investors Hospitality Management, (“IHM”) John Glen DiGuiseppe, has announced the launch of www.greenhotelbookings.com. “This is not a referral program nor...
Six Steps to the Greenest Meetings Possible
The average conference leaves in its wake piles of plastic name badges, resting upon hundreds of plastic water bottles, disposable cups, plates and plastic...
Explorer, Anthropologist Wade Davis to Keynote the ESTC 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) announced that Wade Davis will be a featured keynote speaker at the upcoming Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference...
U.S. Renewable Electricity Generation Surges by 32 Percent
WASHINGTON, D.C.—According to the latest “Monthly Electricity Review” issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (October 3, 2008), net U.S. generation of electricity from...
Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Moves Forward with Solar Energy Project
INDIANAPOLIS—The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis, a hotel owned and operated by Rosemont, Ill.-based First Hospitality Group, Inc., has requested a grant from the Indiana...
