{"id":4932,"date":"2021-10-13T21:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2021-10-13T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:01:18","slug":"sustainably-becoming-more-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/sustainably-becoming-more-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainably becoming more sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At our last Sounding Board, one participant came with a particularly intriguing problem. She wanted to understand how a hotel could use simple, low-cost methods to get their guests to commit to the 5 specific <a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Sustainable Development Goals&#8221; (SDGs)<\/a>. And how could they use these methods to improve their own public image?<\/p>\n<p>In groups of 2, we went into our break-out rooms and there were immediate quick discussions and generation of ideas. Here are some of the results.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You could put up posters reminding guests to use more sustainable options during their stay at the hotel (use stairs, use less water when showering, don&#8217;t wash the bed linen every day, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Creating a point system for the restaurant menu that encourages guests to choose more sustainable dishes and options<\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>Develop a sustainability button that provides guests with all relevant information about the hotel&#8217;s sustainability efforts. Implement this button throughout the customer journey, from the initial booking email to post-stay contact.<\/li>\n<li>Integrate a &#8220;sustainability spider&#8221; (an idea that came from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/gewinner-der-hackdays-2021\/\">Innovation Hackdays<\/a>). This spider would show the different categories and SDGs and how well the hotel is performing in these aspects.<\/li>\n<li>Host a treasure hunt where guests can win a sustainable dinner (or discount) by collecting or scanning sustainability points hidden throughout the hotel.<\/li>\n<li>Revise the menu to reduce food waste and offer more local food that can be sourced easily and sustainably.<\/li>\n<li>Integrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotelleriesuisse.ch\/de\/schwerpunkte-und-trends\/nachhaltigkeit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainability Hotel<\/a> to showcase the hotel&#8217;s efforts in different departments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After this discussion, the participants were very enthusiastic to implement many of the ideas given. This is the great added value of our Sounding Boards.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to participate in the next Sounding Board? It&#8217;s completely free! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/sounding-board\/\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our last Sounding Board, one participant came with a particularly intriguing problem. She wanted to understand how a hotel could use simple, low-cost methods to get their guests to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-inspiration-trends"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hospitality-booster.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}