Sustainable Tourism
Health Implications
There are serious health implications associated with building design and operations, including cleaning practices. Greening your property will benefit guests' or meeting participants' health, your staff and the local community. It will also improve water quality in local rivers, lakes and help protect the wildlife that depends on these resources. Many commonly used interior design elements, cleaning chemicals and personal care products, raise troubling human health issues, including triggering asthma.
The [EPA] Administrator finds that six greenhouse gases taken in combination endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.
Federal Register/Vol. 74, No. 239/Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - Became law January 14, 2010.
There are over 80,000 chemicals in commerce in the U.S. and only a tiny fraction has been evaluated for human health and environmental impacts. The pesticides, herbicides and rodenticides you might be using in your landscaping and gardens pose potential health and environmental problems. These classes of products are designed to kill — they are poisons. As a result, minimizing, or eliminating and finding alternative products or procedures should be part of your environmental management plan.
Join thousands of lodgings and conference centers across the world by adopting responsible business practices that protect your most important asset — the human.
The hotel and conference industries are in the enviable position of being able to make a substantial positive impact on the environment, embrace social responsibility, attract new customers and increase their profitability while becoming a sustainable business sector.
Be a good ancestor.
Dr. Howard Frumkin, Director, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Trends in corporate social responsibility (CSR), pressure from individual and institutional investors, and increasing momentum in demand for green conferences and events have put the tourism industry on a trajectory towards sustainability.