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The way you communicate your green initiatives to your customers and stakeholders plays a huge part on spreading sustainability, and more importantly, in creating real impact and change of mindsets.
Take, for instance, my recent stay at a 4-star hotel. In the bathroom they had a little card telling...
In this piece I will offer some handy tips that any Hospitality business can take to start reducing their waste production, and what happens when you produce less waste? You save MONEY off your waste bill!
Waste is one of the most colossal challenges of our times. Waste production continues to inc...
This past year has been as unparalleled as 2020, with many hoping for better things to come in 2022...
What has been crystal clear, is that society is demanding more. More from our governments, more from businesses and more from ourselves.
2030, 2050- these 'net zero' targets and others are only a...
I am a Hospitality professional with an entrepreneurial mind.
I have worked as a Hotel Manager for 20 years of my life, but I always knew I wanted to do more, I wanted to do something different, something that changed our industry for the better and had a positive impact.
That is why in 2017 I fo...
When was the last time you took time out of your day to review the energy your hotel or restaurant uses?
Following staff wages, your energy consumption could possibly be one of the largest costs to your business. Yet every week I meet hospitality managers that don’t have control over their energy c...
Fifty Shades Greener has launched the second round of our Licensed Trainers Network project and is seeking trainers and entrepreneurs worldwide, to join us in our mission to Green the Hospitality industry.
If you are looking for a new business opportunity in the growing market of Green Training the...
This week, I thought Id give you a break from telling you my opinion on something or other and instead, I wanted to highlight a business that is walking the walk and talking the talk when it comes to their Green Programme.
Dating back to the 18th century, Whatley Manor is a beautifully restored man...
It is estimated that we waste about a third of all the food we produce for human consumption. A third!!! That’s a lot of food.
Producing food requires a huge environmental effort, land that has been deforested, species that have been driven to extinction, indigenous populations that have been made ...
Greening the Hospitality Industry in Kenya!
This week I am delighted to announce a new partnership between Fifty Shades Greener and Sustainable Travel and Tourism Agenda (STTA), based in Kenya.
Our collaboration, will see the Fifty Shades Greener Online Programmes deployed to Kenya’s Hospitality b...
If your business is running a Green programme to reduce it’s carbon footprint it seems logical to use your green journey as a marketing tool.
The travel agent central statistics released a report in 2019 were it stated that:
87% of global travellers want to travel more sustainably
78% of travelle...
Sustainability doesn’t have to be an unattainable goal, or something in the distance that we all know exists but we fail to pursue. There are so many small changes we can all implement in our lives and workplaces that will directly affect our use of resources and our production of a carbon footprint...
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