KINNA, SWEDEN—Kasthall announces Fasad, a collection of woven rugs created in collaboration with renowned British architect Sir David Chipperfield. With its intricate design and use of a new, sustainable material—recycled wool—Fasad is a rug that promises to add a new classic to Kasthall’s already storied collection. The Fasad collection translates the solid, textured feel of brick into the soft, tactile world of woven rugs, merging architectural elements with the beloved warmth and comfort of wool. The design represents a natural progression from last year’s Tegel, the inaugural collaboration between the Pritzker Prize-winning architect and Kasthall. Following the tufted Tegel, both...

INTERNATIONAL REPORT—A recent survey by MMGY Travel Intelligence reveals that Generation Z is at the forefront of a significant surge in European travel, showing a strong intent to spend more on international trips and take more holidays than any other age group in the next year. Despite economic pressures and global uncertainties, Europeans remain committed to leisure travel, with Gen Z setting the pace in terms of both expenditure and the number of trips planned. The study also highlights the growing influence of artificial intelligence in travel planning, a heightened demand for sustainable and authentic experiences, and the impact...

NEW YORK—Carnegie Acoustic Solutions, a division of Carnegie that manufactures iconic, sustainable acoustic design elements, announces its Xorel Artform Flute 3D Panel, a part of the Mezzo Collection, a new suite of acoustic solutions designed to bring harmony to interior environments. Inspired by musical dynamics, the Mezzo Collection strikes a balance between sound control and aesthetic refinement, enabling designers to create spaces that are both functional and beautifully composed. Flute 3D adds a bold rhythm and powerful sound absorption to walls with its undulating 3D form. Offered in the newly available 1” and 2” rPET-Core, Flute 3D delivers high NRCs of 0.70 and 0.80....

Last year saw the emergence of a new spectacle, with local residents in some major European tourist destinations undertaking very vocal protests against tourism, often armed with water pistols, to provide an amusing and newsworthy nuisance to some visitors. Whilst the sight of people squirting diners on Las Ramblas might have begun as an amusing diversion from the main news of the hour, its return in 2025 heralds a worrying trend but highlights a serious point. The protests this year in Spain, Portugal and Italy (though notably not France) are larger and better organized and, it is feared, could act as a deterrent to some...

COPENHAGEN—Cvent, a market-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, and BeCause, the sustainability data hub for the travel and tourism industry, have announced an integration to enhance how hotels present sustainability information on the Cvent Supplier Network (CSN), one of the world’s largest venue-sourcing platforms. The integration allows hotels to automatically integrate verified sustainability information from BeCause’s live data hub—the largest database of verified hotel sustainability data in the industry containing more than 2 million data points across 10,000 metrics—into their CSN profiles, addressing the growing demand from event planners for easily accessible sustainability data when sourcing and booking venues. More than...

ATLANTA—LX Hausys America Inc., an innovative manufacturer of building and decorative materials, announced the release of its corporate 2025 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report. The report details the global sustainability goals and achievements of its parent organization, LX Hausys Ltd., a Korean-based company which designs and manufactures innovative material solutions for multiple markets across thousands of regions worldwide. A key highlight of the report is the company’s continued execution of its 2050 Carbon Neutrality Roadmap, a strategic pathway to actively pursuing greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction initiatives. Last year, the company reduced GHG emissions by 2,218 tons and sold 13,040 tons...

Green Lodging News this week reported on the opening of Limelight Boulder, a new lifestyle hotel by Aspen One located on the University of Colorado—Boulder’s campus. Built to LEED Gold standards, Limelight Boulder is the largest all-electric hotel in the country. Through energy-efficient systems and the utilization of environmentally responsible materials, the design lowers energy use and minimizes environmental impacts. Early in the design process, WATG coordinated with project stakeholders to remove soil contaminants from the former brownfield site, advancing ecological restoration efforts. In addition, the team carefully designed around a century-old underground spring to preserve its natural flow...

ODESSA, FLA.—Green Lodging News has added Verdafero to the Software/Utility Analytics for ESG Reports category of its Green Product & Service Directory. Verdafero InSights is a cloud-based software service for both hotels and suppliers that offers dynamic data analytics across key indicators to provide an analysis of utility usage and operations by analyzing energy and water consumption, occupancy, weather, company operations and other resource utilization patterns to make better informed decisions on operating costs and environmental initiatives. Verdafero InSights provides in-depth reporting of your greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) for internal and external environmental reporting, serving as a comprehensive view of a company’s...

ORLANDO, FLA.—Travel + Leisure Co., a leading leisure travel company providing more than six million vacations to travelers around the world every year, shared its 2024 Corporate Responsibility Report. The annual report outlines the company’s progress in advancing responsible tourism and embedding sustainable and ethical business practices across its global operations. With a mission to put the world on vacation, Travel + Leisure Co. extends its impact beyond travel through a commitment to responsible tourism and integrates these principles into its core business operations. Travel + Leisure Co. 2024 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights include: Environmental More than 200 million gallons of water...

LONDON—The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), in partnership with Omran, unveiled its Environmental & Social Research (ESR) 2025, showing that while the sector has surpassed its pre-pandemic economic peak, its carbon footprint remains below 2019 levels, and its positive social impact continues to grow. According to the global tourism body, Travel & Tourism’s global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 have fallen by 9.3 percent since 2019, when Travel & Tourism was at its peak, and now accounts for a 7.3 percent share of total global GHG emissions, down from an 8.3 percent share in in 2019. While the sector’s environmental...