Better Hospitality
Initiative
Enabling and supporting decision-makers for sustainable business
Are you a decision-makers working in or with the hospitality sector? Are you interested in ensuring your business’ competitiveness by improving, measuring, and communicating on sustainability, in particular lower CO2 emissions (decarbonization)?
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Previous 2024 Programme
Who we are
The BHI is carried out by a group of networks of the UN Global Compact: the Leading Local Networks for Sustainable Tourism.
We collaborate with renowned organizations such as EarthCheck, Expedia Group, the International Finance Corporation and EDGE, myclimate, NOW, the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, and the World Travel & Tourism Council. Each BHI online session – called “Tool Time” – is carried out with one or two of these partners.
What’s in for you
Each BHI Tool Time – an online session of 90 minutes – includes a short presentation, best-practice examples, and peer-to-peer discussions. By participating in one or several BHI Tool Times you will
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get an easy overview of tools and approaches to ensure your business’s competitiveness by
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lowering energy costs and dependence,
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growing your MICE or B2B business,
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attracting or keeping a motivated workforce (employer branding), and
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acquiring sustainability-related financing.
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learn from your peers and best practice examples.
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be able to win the Better Hospitality Award (BHA) and receive support to develop or implement a sustainability project or strategy (if you participate in at least 3 sessions).
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receive a Certificate of Completion from The UN Global Compact Leading Local Networks for Sustainable Tourism (if you participate in at least 3 sessions).
2024 Programme Overview
Join as many online sessions (90 minutes) as you want to learn and discuss with experts and your peers
The dates of the BHI Tool Times can be subject to change.
Topic & Approach
The BHI is designed as a virtual platform where decision-makers get to know different sustainability solutions, learn from best-practice examples, and discuss with their peers - both hotel owners/investors and operators.
The European Union and governments around the world put increasing pressure on the hospitality sector to lower CO2 emissions. Companies that move in this direction have a competitive edge with corporate clients, employees, and investors/banks. This is why the BHI focuses on decarbonization, considering all three dimensions of sustainability (economic, ecological, and social). We explain the concrete benefits and costs of (not) decarbonizing business.
There are big and small hospitality companies, some at the very beginning and others already more advanced on the journey towards sustainability. Therefore, the BHI presents a variety of solutions that meets the variety of the hospitality sector.
The BHI is practice-oriented: we present and discuss on concrete solutions and practice examples decarbonization including the aspects of financing and the implementation in the regional/local context.
The BHI offers concrete incentives and support for sustainability action by granting the winners of the Better Hospitality Award consulting and promotion.
The BHI offers an easy and flexible access: participants can join as many BHI Tool Times as they want and access the BHI content via the learning & sharing platform Moodle at any time; the registration fee is only USD 60, companies that are members of the UN Global Compact can even sign up for free.
The UN Global Compact Leading Local Networks for Sustainable Tourism
A message by Antonio Hautle, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network Switzerland & Liechtenstein
The BHI Market Movers
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