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Sustainability Almost MIA on New AH&LA Site

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The American Hotel & Lodging Association just launched its new website at www.ahla.com. The site looks great. When I learned about the site’s relaunch, I was curious to know where on the site I might find something to do with sustainability. As it turns out, finding that information on the site is not so easy. First, there is no link to anything green from the home page. If you go to the menu in the upper right and click there, you get taken to a page where there is also no obvious sustainability related link. I took a chance and clicked on Resources & Certifications. Dang, nothing there. On that page there is a Best Practices Center but it says “Members Only.” Arghhh.

Knowing that AH&LA has a Sustainability Committee, I went back to the Menu and clicked on “Councils & Committees.” I scrolled down to the Committees menu where I had to scroll a bit more and found the Sustainability Committee page. At the very bottom of that page there are a series of links to Resources of interest—Green Guidelines on recycling, window films, etc. Finally, something. What is the chance someone who is not an AH&LA member will find that information? Your guess is as good as mine but probably slim.

I was curious to know if there are any mentions of Green Lodging News on the site. Green Lodging News is listed in the “Listing of Lodging Industry Trade Press” area and is mentioned on a Green Products & Programs page at the very bottom where there is a link missing.

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