‘Green’ incentive

Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts have proven that ‘going green’ can make a positive impact on the environment … and save enough power to run a 200-bed enterprise for more than a year.

The company has succeeded in making major reductions of greenhouse gases and significant water savings from all its properties across the Middle East.

After the first year of Green Globe Certification of hotels in Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, analysis of energy and water consumption reveals the reduction of 11,765 tons of CO2e and savings of 129,346m3 of potable water in the last 12 months.
 
Green Globe Certification has been contracted by Mövenpick to certify all its hotels and resorts worldwide. The certification process covers all sustainability criteria including the key environmental indicators of energy and water.

Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, vice president of operations in the Middle East and India, Gerard Hotelier said: “The energy savings we have achieved in the last 12 months are equal to powering a 200-room hotel for one and half years.

“The total savings on utilities in this period are almost $700,000 (BD264,000) and this represents a 4 per cent saving in water and electricity costs, while at the same time we have seen a 8.3 per cent increase in occupancy across the properties.”

Green Globe Certification’s partner in the Middle East, Farnek Avireal provides third party verification of the sustainability achievements of Green Globe members including Mövenpick properties. Its online environmental monitoring system Hotel Optimiser has tracked the improved performance of the hotels throughout this first year of certification and will continue to monitor the reduction of environmental impacts.

Green Globe Certification CEO Guido Bauer added: “This is absolute proof that certification by Green Globe leads to great outcomes for the environment as well as utility savings for hotels and resorts.

“These reductions are equivalent to saving one Olympic pool of water per week, each week for a year. The greenhouse gases saved by Mövenpick hotels is the same as the emissions of five non-stop round-trip flights from Dubai to London.”