The Green Building Guidelines provide guidance for its hotels and hospitality partners on construction and refurbishment projects to shape a more sustainable future for tourism together
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To reduce its environmental footprint, raise green standards industry-wide, commit to achieve net-zero emissions and eventually become a circular business, TUI Hotels & Resorts has published recommendations for the first time for its hotels and hospitality partners.
The Green Building Guidelines provide guidance on construction and refurbishment projects for its stakeholders to shape a more sustainable future for tourism collectively.
In line with TUI’s goal to reduce emissions from its hotel business to zero by 2030, the focus on sustainable construction is crucial as it is an important tool for saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions from hotels.
Reviewed by external experts, the guidelines contain the most important aspects for reducing environmental impact and achieving savings in water and energy consumption. They also cover topics such as monitoring systems, sustainability certification and stakeholder communications.
“We are pleased to see our guidelines promoting sustainable construction decisions around the world. They bring together proven measures and the expertise of our sustainability and construction experts for all our hotel brands. Our hotel partners, architects, engineers and contractors can benefit from this knowledge and commit to using the guidelines as they develop hotels for a more sustainable future,” said Jessica Kuthe, director portfolio management, TUI Hotels & Resorts.
To date, TUI hotels have already started implementing measures from the Green Building Guidelines, particularly in the area of energy savings.
For instance, TUI’s long-standing joint venture partners RIU, Atlantica and Grupotel have increased the number of their photovoltaic systems in Spain, Cape Verde and Greece.
In Italy, the Robinson hotel brand operates one of the largest photovoltaic plants of any hotel in Europe and was awarded the coveted DGNB Platinum certificate for a sustainable building project on Fuerteventura.
The Green Building Guidelines also support TUI Group’s Sustainability Agenda which aims to massively reduce the company’s environmental footprint.
By 2030, given its current eco-friendly trajectory, TUI Hotels & Resorts’ emissions are already set to be reduced by almost half (46.2 per cent) compared to 2019 – the targets have been confirmed by the independent Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
TUI is determined to raise the bar and work towards reduction of its hotels’ carbon dioxide emissions to zero by the same year.
Important levers to achieving the target are renewable energy and resource-saving processes, with sustainable buildings making an important contribution to these environmental protection efforts.
Headquartered in Germany, TUI Group is a leading global tourism group with over 400 hotels and resorts under its premium brands such as RIU, TUI Blue and Robinson, as well as 16 cruise ships. The Group also includes leading tour operator brands and online marketing platforms across Europe, five airlines with more than 130 modern medium and long-haul aircraft and around 1,200 travel agencies.
Keen to find out how you can green your hospitality business?
Download the Green Building Guidelines here.
Find out more information on TUI Group’s Sustainability Agenda here.
