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Title: How green is Curaao Hospitality


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How green is Curaçao Hospitality?
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Why go green?It is rewarding because
  • You are helping the environment
  • You will be competitive
  • You will earn recognition

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Involving who?
  • Everyone from the ground up

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Make a green team with staff coming from all
sections of the hotel
  • Get all personel in a meeting
  • Explain them why
  • Agree upon a green program
  • Encourage with incentives
  • Consult experts with knowledge of local
    circumstances

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Experts will tell the green team
  • Start by looking at all your bills for utilities,
    food supply, cleaning supplies
  • Discuss opportunities to go green in each section
    of your hotel or other hospitality service
  • Set yourself a plan timeline

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Going green is an ongoing process
  • Educate staff
  • and other personel and have monthly meetings

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Guests
  • Educate guests
  • Half of US tourists consider themselves as
    eco-friendly
  • Let them know about the benefits for themselves
    and the planet

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Once the team is on track, ask for a benchmarking
program e.g. Green Globe
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Then you are on the way toward becoming a green
hotel or hospitality service
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Competition, earning recognition, branding, these
are not unfamiliar concepts,but why should the
sector go green, giving the environment a helping
hand?
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Things are going really bad with world environment
  • forests
  • diminishing animalsfishstock
  • mineralsoil stocks
  • pollution
  • climate change

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Forests and oceans
  • Deforestation means natural capital losses
    between 2 - 5 trillion every year, to date Wall
    Street lost 1.5 only
  • About 40 of mammals are compromised by squeeze
    on habitat
  • All fishseafood species will crash by 2048

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Climate change
  • Burning fuels like gasoline, diesel and coal
    amounts in more greenhouse gases warming up the
    atmosphere this process results in climate change

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Worldwide impacts of CC
  • Temperatures rise
  • NorthSouthpole icecaps and glaciers are melting
    down
  • Sealevel risesimpacts for coastal and lowlying
    coastal areas
  • Stronger rainfall within shorter periods
  • flooding

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Caribbean area specifics
  • Warmer ocean water energizes hurricanes
  • Hurricanes take more southern routes in the
    Caribbean area

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Urgency to save the planet and our islands
  • All environmental, social and economic questions
    will be overtaken by Climate Change
  • Global and local action needed involving all
    citizens, government and business

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Hospitalitys role in saving the planet how?
  • Introduce the idea of Corporate Social
    Responsibility (CSR) to meet demands of rapidly
    changing business environment
  • CSRs slogan is People, Planet and Profit
  • This facilitates addressing climate and
    environmental issues connecting them to PPP

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Greening hospitality by PPP
  • People involve all staff and workers think of
    rewarding their commitment
  • Planet work on a green program
  • Profit without profits no business, and
    without planet no business and no profits

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A few recommendations
  • prevent environmental problems
  • Consult professional environmental advisers
  • Without green program the use of loose tips
    results in contradictions
  • Consult professionals on team work, with
    knowledge of local culture
  • Greening is all about being real

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This will cost me money
  • It proves to be more rewarding than one imagines
  • investing in PPP means saving money in the future
    (different timelines)
  • Reflect for a while what making profits means
    while nature is dying
  • Recognition in society is a reward

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So now you have sufficient tools at your disposal
to answer the questionhow green is Curacao
hospitality?
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Still interested in a few practical tips?
  • Design climate and environmental friendly
    buildings, gardens etc.
  • Avoid construction of artificial beaches
  • Avoid construction too close to the coastline
  • Purchase only machines, equipment, cars,
    aircosystems with low energy use
  • Always consult professionals on this

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gardens
  • Local plants and trees
  • Avoid planting too close to coastline
  • Use only compost as fertilizer
  • Combat eventual pests only with recommended green
    products
  • Plant strategically cool lanes, buildings,
    shadow, observe the suns route, wind

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waste
  • Reduce waste volume progressively
  • Produce new garden green mould by composting
    organic garden and kitchen waste
  • Deliver glass bottles to recycling companies
  • Sustain efforts to recycle plastic bottles

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Waste 2
  • Introduce bins for separate waste
  • Take notice of zero waste websites
  • Communicate with suppliers on environmentally
    friendly products

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Inside buildings
  • Save energy
  • More energy autonomy using solar power etc.
  • Save water
  • Purchase the right soaps and detergents
  • Teach workers to handle detergents the right way

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And we could mention a 1001 more tips
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But the most important thing is
  • Management adopts a green program
  • Management involves all workers and staff and
    telling them why
  • After working for a year or two, management could
    decide to join a certification program, e.g.
    Green Globe
  • Being aware of being part of wider ecosystem

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Being a good example
  • Provides a model for collegues and other sectors
  • Also for government bodies
  • makes environmentalists fieldwork easier as they
    can refer to this example
  • Upgrades the knowledge and responsibility level
    of the citizens

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Be part of the solution
  • Be serious about greening (greenwash)
  • Be aware that coastal management should be
    integrated and sustainable and not unsustainable
    and cut into bits
  • Take Carmabis advice from the heart and support
    them
  • Join Curacao Business Council for Sustainable
    Development

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And keep it enjoyable for everybody
involved.Thank you for saving the planet and
people !
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Amigu di Tera / Friends of the Earth Curaçao
  • Lloyd Narain
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