ORLANDO—The Green Hospitality Conference & Tradeshow will be held December 17 to 18 at the Hyatt Regency Orlando. Four organizations have joined together to organize the event: The American Green Lodging and Hospitality Assn. (AGLHA), Florida Caribbean Green Meeting Industry Council, NEWH Green Voice, and the University of Florida TREEO Center. The conference will feature three tracks of educational sessions: Green Meetings, Green Lodging, and Green Interiors. The theme of the conference is “Well-being | Prosperity | Conservation.”
The Green Meetings track will include two sessions on the APEX/ASTM Green Meeting Standards & Certification and a case study of a green event—the McDonald’s National Meeting. Another session, moderated by Dina Belon-Sayre, Energy Specialist, Hyatt Regency Orlando, is entitled, “If a Meeting Planner and Operator Design a Hotel, What Would it Look Like?” At the end of the conference, a “Case Study on Sustainable Meetings” will be presented. Peter Goren, president, AGLHA, will moderate and the speaker will be Paul Salinger, Vice President Marketing, Oracle.
The Green Lodging track will include the following sessions: “Making Renovations More Sustainable While Controlling Costs,” “Reducing Waste, the Undiscovered Profit—How to Turn Disposal Costs Around,” “Trends in Sustainable Energy Reduction” and “Making Renovations More Sustainable While Controlling Costs.”
The NEWH Green Voice track on Green Interiors will include the following session: “What Does Beauty and Great Sustainable Design Mean to the Millennial Generation?” Also scheduled: “Marine Biology and Coastal Development,” “Meta Trends,” and “Eco Districts & Community Sustainability Initiatives.”
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Glenn Hasek can be reached at editor@greenlodgingnews.com.
