It is quite astounding how many hotels are doing it and how much water and energy they are saving. What I am referring to is recycling laundry water using a system from AquaRecyle. I have been familiar with AquaRecycle for quite a few years and picked up some material about it at The Clean Show in Orlando in late August. In 2024, Marriott International properties recycled 2 billion gallons of laundry water using AquaRecycle. Hilton Worldwide: 897 million gallons. Parks Hotels: 515 million gallons. Hyatt Hotels and Resorts: 496 million gallons. The list goes on and is very long. You can...

CANCUN, MEXICO—In celebration of World Tourism Day 2025 late last month, The Palace Company has unveiled a powerful new video campaign capturing the ecosystems that thrive in and around its resorts in Cancun and the Riviera Maya: mangroves, dunes, jungles, crocodiles, sea turtles, and hundreds of species that coexist in harmony with tourism. The message is clear: awareness is not enough—travelers and tourism partners must take action. Guests and the general public are invited to support the conservation of these unique habitats through a direct donation to Palace Foundation. “Every night a guest sleeps at one of our properties is made possible by the ecosystems...

VISTA, CALIF.—The Bank of America Institute recently reported that the cost of water “has increased significantly across the U.S. in the past decade.” As of March 2025, median water utility payments have increased by 7.1 percent—twice the rate of inflation. Water utility bills cover the delivery, removal and treatment of water, according to Klaus Reichardt, CEO and Founder of Waterless Co., Inc. One way to keep water-related costs in check is to update water infrastructure that can work efficiently, like a well-oiled machine. Therein lies the problem, according to the Institute. While water infrastructure improvements are happening, it’s a slow process and...

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...

DARIEN, CONN.—Nuveen Green Capital (NGC), a leader in sustainable commercial real estate financing solutions, announced that it has closed on the largest C-PACE transaction to date at $290 million for the Pendry Hotel & Residences in Tampa, Fla. The closing also marks the first C-PACE financed transaction in the city of Tampa. C-PACE, which stands for Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy, provides flexible financing solutions to fund sustainability measures in new, ongoing, or recently completed commercial real estate construction projects. The record-breaking transaction demonstrates the growing sophistication and scale of C-PACE as a financing mechanism, underscoring C-PACE’s evolution from a niche financing tool to...

BOSTON—Wint, the leading water management solution for the built environment, announced the launch of Water Insights, giving facility and sustainability managers, developers, and general contractors a clear, actionable view of their buildings’ water usage patterns. Facility and sustainability teams currently manage their buildings’ water using aggregate, low-granularity consumption data—often provided with significant delay by water utilities. While this information provides a high-level understanding of total consumption, it offers little to no visibility into long-term trends or the root causes of water inefficiencies. With Water Insights, Wint collects granular flow data and uses AI to analyze it in the cloud, uncovering usage...

Facility managers looking for high-impact sustainability upgrades are turning to an often-overlooked fixture: the urinal. The shift toward waterless urinals, specifically, appears to be gaining momentum across commercial real estate, education, and healthcare sectors. This is because managers are under increased pressure to reduce water usage, trim utility expenses, and meet growing environmental compliance standards. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, each conventional urinal replaced with a waterless unit can save approximately 26,000 gallons of water annually. In a facility with 50 urinals, that's 1.3 million gallons saved per year—enough to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools. These aren’t minor efficiency tweaks....

SAN DIEGO—Anacove, the developer of AI-enabled, cloud-connected hotel energy and operations management software solutions, announced that its line of Smart Thermostats, Toilet Leak Detectors, Asset Tracking Tags, and Staff Safety Tags now integrate seamlessly with the SkyTouch Technology Hotel Property Management System (PMS). “The integration of our AI-enabled energy and operations management hotel software solutions with the SkyTouch PMS makes it easier than ever for hotel owner-operators to reduce waste while increasing operational efficiency and staff safety,” Anacove CEO Ian Lerner said today. “SkyTouch Hotel OS users can now access all of the features and reporting capabilities of the Anacove solution directly from...

In an industry where tight margins and high guest expectations intersect with the growing demand for sustainability, innovation is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. Hotel operators today face rising energy costs, resource constraints, and labor challenges, all while striving to deliver exceptional guest experiences. At the heart of addressing these challenges is a technology that’s often misunderstood or underutilized: Artificial Intelligence (AI). While many hotels have adopted smart thermostats and automated check-in systems, the true potential of AI lies in its ability to unify and analyze the data these systems generate. Too often, AI is confined to individual...

ODESSA, FLA.—Green Lodging News has added Anacove to its Green Product & Service Directory in the categories of Energy Management/Guestroom and Toilets/Leak Detection. Founded in 2020 and based in San Diego, Anacove is a leading provider of patented, AI-enabled IoT solutions purpose-built for the hospitality industry. Its suite of smart thermostats, toilet leak detectors, asset tracking tools, and safety alert systems help hotels cut costs across energy, water, and labor—together representing more than $2 billion in annual expenses for U.S. hotels. The company’s entire portfolio runs natively on the LG Pro:Centric hotel TV platform—potentially turning thousands of LG hotel TVs...