Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) has released the latest benchmarks from an ongoing international project to create default sustainability data for the global hotel industry. The report, "Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index 2016: Energy, Water, and Carbon," led by Eric Ricaurte in collaboration with 11 global hotel firms, analyzes data provided for 8,880 properties.
The report, which details the Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmark Index (CHSB), is available at no charge from the CHR at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.
"By adding new segmentation by climate and hotel type, we have strengthened our industry-centric approach to this effort, given the realization that a practical benchmark must start within specific locations and segments, rather than trying to compare all properties," Ricaurte said.
He pointed out that the hotel sustainability study's goal is to build a representative database that provides raw benchmarks as a base for industry comparisons and data integration.
The results are presented in the CHSB2016 Index report, where users can obtain the range of benchmarks for energy consumption, water consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions for hotels.
Key findings/tendencies from the CHSB2016 Index report include:
- Water usage per occupied room tends to be higher for luxury hotels than other segments, across all geographies. Per square meter, however, this tendency does not hold.
- Resort hotels generally have higher energy and water usage both per occupied room and per square meter, across all climate zones. Though this does not necessarily hold true for all geographies.
Data for this report was provided by Diamond Resorts, Hilton Worldwide, Host Hotels & Resorts, Hyatt Hotels Corp., InterContinental Hotels Group, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Marriott International, Park Hotel Group, Saunders Hotel Group, The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, and Wyndham.
Ricaurte invites hotels to participate in the 2017 edition of the Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index, which has now begun collecting 2015 data sets for carbon emissions, energy use, and water use.
The full benchmarking sustainability report is available for download via the CHR website.
