EAST LONGMEADOW, MASS.—The pandemic changed the world forever. While wearing masks and social distancing are now optional, one critical habit remains: proper handwashing, which includes thorough drying. People are washing their hands at an unprecedented rate, and that puts the restroom experience under more intense scrutiny than ever before. “Washing your hands has always been important, as shown by the CDC mantra, ‘Clean hands save lives,’” said William Gagnon, COO, Excel Dryer. “The pandemic reminded the world of the importance of proper hand hygiene. There is also a keen focus on restrooms and how a person’s experience in them can...

PENSACOLA, FLA.—Oyster Bay Boutique Hotel is proud to announce an eco-friendly new offering for its guests: 100 percent sustainable, reusable aluminum custom-branded cans of spring water, produced by local company Custom Water Workz. This progressive initiative not only elevates the guest experience but also significantly curtails the reliance on single-serve plastic bottles, reinforcing the hotel’s commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship. Mallory Studer, Owner of Oyster Bay, collaborated with Daniel Rogers, Client Services Director at Custom Water Workz, to craft a unique label design that highlights the hotel’s brand while promoting eco-friendly practices. “We are excited to offer our guests...

HOLLYWOOD, FLA.—Hard Rock International and Seminole Gaming announce their partnership with Ocean Conservancy, a leading nonprofit dedicated to protecting our ocean from today’s greatest global challenges. Together, they will advance sustainability actions across Hard Rock and Seminole Gaming properties, and the communities and tourist destinations they serve. The Global Sound Waves sustainability partnership with Ocean Conservancy builds upon the ongoing work of Save The Planet sustainability teams at local Hard Rock and Seminole Gaming properties. By focusing on the upstream management of water and food waste, as well as material waste, the campaign helps to promote waste audits that identify alternatives and...

A leading national nonprofit, Keep America Beautiful inspires and educates people to act every day to improve and beautify their community environment. Keep America Beautiful envisions a country in which every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. Established in 1953, Keep America Beautiful provides the expertise, programs and resources to help people End Littering, Improve Recycling, Beautify America’s public spaces, and Restore & Support resilient communities. The organization is driven by the work and passion of millions of individual volunteers, nearly 700 community-based Keep America Beautiful affiliates, and the support of municipalities, elected officials, and corporate partners. Hilton Sponsors Greatest American Cleanup Hilton recently announced sponsorship of Keep...

NATIONAL REPORT—Given the immense climatic challenges we currently face and the growing consumer demand for more sustainable products and services, businesses in every sector are starting to take their environmental impact seriously. In hospitality, the situation is no different. Energy consumption in the industry is high, with cooling, lighting, heating, and ventilation responsible for up to 60 percent of a hotel’s CO2 emissions. Energy-intensive extras such as heated swimming pools, excessive water and plastic use, and food waste also contribute to the industry’s environmental impacts. Given these unavoidable energy requirements and resource needs, hotels must be smart about increasing energy efficiency and reducing their...

INTERNATIONAL REPORT—“Net-zero hotels” are something no one had heard of ten years ago, but now an increasing number are redirecting their efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and achieve this gold standard in hospitality sustainability. While this is an encouraging step—you might call it a breath of fresh air—the wider environmental challenges facing the hotel sector remain stark. According to the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance’s Global Hotel Decarbonisation Report, the sector must reduce its emissions by two-thirds by 2030 and 90 percent per room by 2050 if it’s to contribute to the goals set out in the Paris Climate Agreement. These ambitious...

LOS ANGELES—evolvetogether, the luxury, clean personal care brand that blends beautiful design, high-performing formulas, and fine fragrances into thoughtfully made products, announced a collaboration with goop, the wellness brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow, who is also an advisor to and equity holder in evolvetogether. The collaboration features a first-of-its-kind exfoliating bar soap that meets goop’s clean-certified standards and comes wrapped in paper made out of materials like wood pulp that disappears under running water in seconds, leaving no trace. This partnership began with a call to action to address the overuse and waste of hotel amenities, particularly soap, the most used and highest-waste...

LOS ANGELES—Yesterday, evolvetogether, the luxury, clean personal care brand that blends beautiful design, high-performing formulas, and fine fragrances into thoughtfully made products, announced a collaboration with goop, the wellness brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow, who is also an advisor to and equity holder in evolvetogether. The collaboration features a first-of-its-kind exfoliating bar soap that meets goop's clean-certified standards and comes wrapped in paper made out of materials like wood pulp that disappears under running water in seconds, leaving no trace. This partnership began with a call to action to address the overuse and waste of hotel amenities, particularly soap, the most used and highest-waste...

MACAO—A total of 350 Sands China team members and local community group volunteers worked together to assemble more than 30,000 hygiene kits for international social enterprise Clean the World on Thursday at The Venetian Macao's Cotai Expo, marking the initiative’s 11th consecutive year. Sands Cares Ambassadors and other Sands China team members joined volunteers from four organizations for the service activity: local green enterprise Macau ECOnscious, Green Future, the Bosco Green Store of Bosco Youth Service Network, and the University of Saint Joseph. They worked together to build this year's hygiene kits, whose supplies are essential for good health and personal hygiene and help prevent the spread of disease in populations in need around...

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS—Visitors to this year’s The Hospitality Show in San Antonio, Texas, from October 28-30, are invited to explore ADA Cosmetics Refillution. This advanced automated hotel cosmetic refill system from the market leader is set to revolutionize efficiency, sustainability, and hygiene.  Building on over four decades of expertise in dispenser systems, ADA Cosmetics takes a major step forward in 2024 with the launch of its groundbreaking refill concept for hotels. The ADA Cosmetics Refillution is a high-speed machine that enables the reuse of dispensers instead of discarding them. “We’re excited to introduce the ADA Cosmetics Refillution in San Antonio and...