EVALUATION OF CURRENT PERFORMANCE:
GOOD PRACTICES:
* The Hotel Green Valley is using digital key cards. This ensures that all energy is turned off when the Rooms are empty. (IHRA, 1995 pp.6) Same for the top side and rear offices. * According to Webster, (2000) papers can be reprocessed and as per the maintainable development review, 32% of document was reprocessed until 1992 by some key industrial areas. Old magazines are sold to the local merchant by the Hotel Green Valley. This implies that spend segregation is practiced to some extent in where. * The hotel is linked with the mains for regular water, energy and energy. This is excellent because it cuts on additional expenditure on cabling and pipes thereby decreasing the chance of leak and leading to (Webster, 2000) * The hotel uses LPG for cooking requirements in your kitchen area. The LPG is a fresh and clean energy source in consideration to the pollutants it creates in the surroundings. (http://www.aegpl.eu), but, it is just another kind of a non-renewable fuel. (Webster,2000)
ACCEPTABLE PRACTICES:
* The regular water for water fountains and garden is drawn from the linked subterranean pipe well which is an appropriate exercise as regular water loss can be avoided in this situation unlike what Hyatt Regency Phoenix had earlier i.e. above ground watering program (which was later changed). (Best Hotel Ecological Methods, 1990) * 2 small
Bibliography: * Kirk. D, (1996), Environmental management for hotels, Butterworth – Heinemann: London * Webster, K * Pichon, L. (1996). Environmental Management for Hotels: The industry guide to best practice (2nd Ed.). Butterworth Heinemann: Oxford. INTERNET: